Introduction: the grandest thing in the world -- Philanthropic taste: race and character in Herman Melville's The confidence-man -- Character is capital: manufacturing habit in Mark Twain's character-factory -- Muscle memory: building the body politic of character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The National Police Gazette -- A story written on her face: Pauline Hopkins's unmaking of the inherited character of race -- Character's conduct: spaces of interethnic emulation in Jane Addams's charitable effort
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism
Character in literature
Character-- Political aspects-- United States-- History-- 19h century
Characters and characteristics in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Political culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century
Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century
Rhetoric-- Political aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century