The Perfecting of Nature, Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, The University of North Carolina Press, Josh Doty,Modern/19th Century,LITERARY CRITICISM, American literature; antebellum literature; nineteenth-century American literature; literature and science; literature and medicine; plasticity; health reform; reform; body; Henry David Thoreau; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transcendentalism, American Romanticism, Romanticism, Herman Melville; Walt Whitman; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sylvester Graham; Orson Fowler; Walden; Moby-Dick; The House of the Seven Gables; Leaves of Grass; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel,, , United States, en-UShttps://uncpress.orgAmerican literature; antebellum literature; nineteenth-century American literature; literature and science; literature and medicine; plasticity; health reform; reform; body; Henry David Thoreau; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transcendentalism, American Romanticism, Romanticism, Herman Melville; Walt Whitman; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Sylvester Graham; Orson Fowler; Walden; Moby-Dick; The House of the Seven Gables; Leaves of Grass; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel, [BLURB],[CITY],NC,books, ebooks, biblet, Book2look