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Author:

Jackson, Holly.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Families--Political aspects--United States.
Literatur.
Familie.
USA.
American literature.
Families.
Families--Political aspects.
Literature.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-192) and index.

Contents:

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?.

ISBN:

0199317046 (hbk : acid-free paper)
9780199317042 (hbk : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)836261249

LCCN:

2013008402

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)