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

Jackson, Holly.

American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 / Holly Jackson. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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?



9780199317059


American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Families in literature.
Families--Political aspects--United States.


Electronic Books.

PS217 / .A447 2013