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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Holly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1800-1899
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Families in literature
Families > Political aspects
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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