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<p><P>What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>'s Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's <i>Queequeg</i>. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual.<P>Examining such texts as <i>Typee</i>, <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>, <i>Captivity of the Oatman Girls</i>, <i>The Morgesons</i>, <i>Iola Leroy</i>, and <i>Contending Forces</i>, Putzi relates the representation of the marked body to significant events, beliefs, or cultural shifts, including tattooing and captivity, romantic love, the patriarchal family, and abolition and slavery. Her particular focus is on both men and women of color, as well as white women-in other words, bodies that did not signify personhood in the nineteenth century and thus by their very nature were grotesque. Complicating the dis

Author

Jennifer Putzi; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Athens: University of Georgia Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820343952

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-24