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Author:

Clymer, Jeffory A.

Title:

Family money : property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century / Jeffory A. Clymer.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

204 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Miscegenation in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Interracial marriage--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"This most illegal family": sex, slavery, and the politics of inheritance -- Blood, truth, and consequences: partus sequitur ventrem and the problem of legal title -- Plantation heiress fiction, slavery, and the properties of white marriage -- Reparations for slavery and Lydia Maria Child's reconstruction of the family -- The properties of marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history

ISBN:

0199897700 (acid-free paper)
9780199897704 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)780063888

LCCN:

2012008779

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)