Identifying marks
Body, Human, in literature
Human body in literature
Tattooing
American literature, history and criticism, 19th century
Race in literature
Punishment
Sex role in literature
American literature
History and criticism
"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 challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, in…
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