Reimagining the republic : race, citizenship, and nation in the literary work of Albion W. Tourgée / Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gustafson, Sandra M., editor.

Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953- editor.

Series:

Reconstructing America.

Fordham scholarship online.

Reconstructing America

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905--Criticism and interpretation.

Tourgée, Albion W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume brings together a collection focused on Tourgée's literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to work with multiple points of view.

Contents:

Foreword / Carolyn L. Karcher

Introduction : Literary Tourgée / Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine

1. Gothic Reconstruction : Hawthorne's House in Tourgée's Toinette and A Royal Gentleman / Robert S. Levine

2. Tourgée's A Fool's Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism / John Ernest

3. "Queer Synecdoche" : Tourgée's Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship / Nancy Bentley

4. Reparations and Passing in Tourgée's Pactolus Prime / DeLisa D. Hawkes

5. The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée / Tess Chakkalakal

6. "Their Position Must Be Mined" : Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt's Career-Long Engagement with White Readers / Jennifer Rae Greeson

7. Reimagining the Republic : Tourgée on Citizenship / Sandra M. Gustafson

8. Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction / Kenneth W. Warren

9. Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw / Christine Holbo

10. The Business of Marriage, Pluralized : Mormonism and Money in Button's Inn / Molly Ball

11. Tourgée's New Realism : Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice / Almas Khan

12. With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys : Tourgée's Legal Romance / Brook Thomas

13. "I Don't Care a Rag for the Union as It Was" : Amputation, the Past, and the Work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Bricks without Straw / Sarah E. Chinn

14. Tracking Redress in the West : The Railroad in Tourgée's Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don / Annemarie Mott Ewing

15. The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée : The Project of Our Continent / Mary B. Hale

16. Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation : Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels / Gregory Laski

17. Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War / Alex Zweber Leslie

Afterword / Mark Elliott.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781531504298

1531504299

9781531501389

1531501389