Author:
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Descriptionxxii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction: "What, then, is the American, this new man?" -- Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen -- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire -- Fusions and confusions -- Rebellious dandies and political fictions -- American Minervas -- Section 2. Dangerous doubles -- Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade -- Seeing red -- Subject female : authorizing an American identity -- Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman -- Prologue 3: The ball -- Choreographing class/performing gentility -- Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves -- Black gothic.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
