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.