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Sibling romance in American fiction, 1835-1900 / Emily E. VanDette.
Van Pelt Library PS374.B77 V36 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- VanDette, Emily E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Siblings in literature.
- Brothers and sisters in literature.
- Attachment behavior in literature.
- Love in literature.
- Social values in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Contents:
- Sibling pedagogy: the brother-sister ideal in domestic advice and children's periodical literature
- Remembering resistance and resilience: the revolutionary sibling romances of Sedgwick, Simms, and Kennedy
- "She carried the romance of sisterly affection too far": sibling love in Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood
- "A whole, perfect thing": sibling bonds and anti-slavery politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
- Reconstructing siblings in the African American nadir: siblings in post-reconstruction novels by Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt
- Epilogue: sibling romance in/and the canon; or, the ambiguities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137287182
- 1137287187
- OCLC:
- 806013912
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