Reimagining the Republic : Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée /

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Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ball, Molly (Contribuidor), Bentley, Nancy (Contribuidor), Chakkalakal, Tess (Contribuidor), Chinn, Sarah E. (Contribuidor), Elliott, Mark (Contribuidor), Ernest, John (Contribuidor), Ewing, Annemarie Mott (Contribuidor), Greeson, Jennifer Rae (Contribuidor), Gustafson, Sandra M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hale, Mary B. (Contribuidor), Hale, Mary (Contribuidor), Hawkes, DeLisa D. (Contribuidor), Holbo, Christine (Contribuidor), Karcher, Carolyn L. (Contribuidor), Karcher, Carolyn (Contribuidor), Khan, Almas (Contribuidor), Laski, Gregory (Contribuidor), Leslie, Alex Zweber (Contribuidor), Levine, Robert S. (Contribuidor), Levine, Robert (Contribuidor, Editor ), Thomas, Brook (Contribuidor), Warren, Kenneth W. (Contribuidor), Warren, Kenneth (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Colección:Reconstructing America
Temas:
Tourgée, Albion W., > 1838-1905 > Criticism and interpretation.
Tourgée, Albion W., > 1838-1905.
1800-1899
African Americans in literature.
Racism in literature.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Civil War.
History.
Literary Studies.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
Literature and society.
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) in literature.
United States.
Citizenship.
Literary realism.
Race.
Reconstruction.
Slavery.
Tourgée, Albion.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Literary Tourgée
  • I Race
  • 1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne's House in Tourgée's Toinette and A Royal Gentleman
  • 2 Tourgée's A Fool's Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism
  • 3 "Queer Synecdoche" Tourgée's Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship
  • 4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée's Pactolus Prime
  • 5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée
  • 6 "Their Position Must Be Mined" Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt's Career-Long Engagement with White Readers
  • II Citizenship
  • 7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship
  • 8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction
  • 9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw
  • 10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button's Inn
  • 11 Tourgée's New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice
  • 12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée's Legal Romance
  • III Nation
  • 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
  • 14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée's Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
  • 15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent
  • 16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels
  • 17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War
  • Afterword
  • Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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