Family money : property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century /

Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, 'Family Money' reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clymer, Jeffory A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature. Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century. Interracial marriage > United States. Mestizaje in literature. Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Métissage dans la littérature. Intimité dans la littérature. Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle. Mariage interracial > États-Unis. Mestizaje in literature American literature Interracial marriage Intimacy (Psychology) in literature Literature and society Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature United States English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. 1800-1899 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"This most illegal family": sex, slavery, and the politics of inheritance
Blood, truth, and consequences: partus sequitur ventrem and the problem of legal title
Plantation heiress fiction, slavery, and the properties of white marriage
Reparations for slavery and Lydia Maria Child's reconstruction of the family
The properties of marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins.