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American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 / Holly Jackson.
LIBRA PS217.F35 J33 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Holly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Families in literature.
- Families--Political aspects--United States.
- Families.
- Families--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 201 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- The transformation of American family property in The House of the Seven Gables
- National reproduction and Clotel's queer mulatta
- The character of a family in Stowe's Dred: on the limits of alternative kinship
- Resisting reunion: Anna Dickinson and the reconstruction politics of friendship
- Why I hate children: the willful sterility of the country of the pointed firs
- Another long bridge: textual atavism in Hagar's Daughter
- Coda: writing in blood: print kinship?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199317042
- 0199317046
- OCLC:
- 836261249
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