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The nadir & the zenith : temperance & excess in the early African American novel / Anna Pochmara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pochmara, Anna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Temperance in literature.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
- Other Title:
- Nadir and the zenith
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: The zenith & the nadir : the early African American novel
- The excess of mulatta melodrama. Mulatta melodrama : mixed race and the melodramatic mode in the early Black novel
- The apple falls far from the tree : matrilineal opposition in mulatta melodrama
- The fall of man : White masculinity on trial
- Black tropes of temperance. The genre mergers of the nadir : anti-drink literature, sentimentalism, and naturalism in Black temperance narratives
- Aesthetic excess, ethical discipline, and racial indeterminacy : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Sowing and reaping
- Tropes of temperance, specters of naturalism : Amelia E. Johnson's Clarence and Corinne
- Enslavement to philanthropy, freedom from heredity : Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Uncalled
- Metropolitan possibilities and compulsions : the mulatta and the dandy in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the gods
- Conclusion: The nadir and beyond : echoes of mulatta melodrama and the Black temperance novel in the early twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pochmara, Anna. The nadir & the zenith
- ISBN:
- 9780820358925
- 0820358924
- Publisher Number:
- 40030560916
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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