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Author:
VanDette, Emily E.
Title:
Sibling romance in American fiction, 1835-1900 / Emily E. VanDette.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Brothers and sisters in literature.
Attachment behavior in literature.
Love in literature.
Social values in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sibling pedagogy: the brother-sister ideal in domestic advice and children's periodical literature -- Remembering resistance and resilience: the revolutionary sibling romances of Sedgwick, Simms, and Kennedy -- "She carried the romance of sisterly affection too far": sibling love in Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood -- "A whole, perfect thing": sibling bonds and anti-slavery politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred -- Reconstructing siblings in the African American nadir: siblings in post-reconstruction novels by Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt -- Epilogue: sibling romance in/and the canon; or, the ambiguities.
ISBN:
1137287187
9781137287182
OCLC:
(OCoLC)806013912
LCCN:
2012030474
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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