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Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / Tess Chakkalakal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252093388
  • 9781283223898
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS217 .N684 2011
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law -- Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends -- "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission -- Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line -- Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.
Subject: Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the slave-marriage plot -- Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law -- Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends -- "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission -- Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line -- Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.

Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage.

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