Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America by Jennifer Putzi

Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Jennifer Putzi

208 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction reflective medium-paced

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What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more chall...

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