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American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 / Holly Jackson.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'American Blood' foregrounds a culture-wide struggle over the definition and value of the family in the nineteenth-century United States. This study offers a new vision of the American novel in this tumultuous period, highlighting works that protest the overvaluation of kinship in American culture, depicting the domestic family as antagonistic to the political enterprise of the United States. Far from venerating the family as the nucleus of the nation, these novels imagine, even welcome, the decline of this institution and the social order it supports.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-931705-4
- 0-19-931704-6
- OCLC:
- 857769703
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