Sibling romance in American fiction, 1835-1900 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	VanDette, Emily E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Palgrave MacMillan, [2013]
Subjects:	American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Brothers and sisters in literature. Attachment behavior in literature. Love in literature. Social values in literature. Roman. Geschwister. USA. American fiction. 1800 - 1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of 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.