American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 /

'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Holly (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Families in literature. Families > Political aspects > United States. Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Familles dans la littérature. Familles > Aspect politique > États-Unis. American literature Families in literature Families > Political aspects United States 1800-1899 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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?