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04181aam a2200541 i 4500 001 5D6F8632DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200102s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020930011 020 $a 0198812515 020 $a 9780198812517 035 $a (OCoLC)1137817719 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d UKMGB $d GZN $d PSC $d CUV $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS217.S55 $b M44 2020 082 04 $a 810.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Meer, Sarah, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a American claimants : $b the transatlantic romance, c.1820-1920 / $c Sarah Meer. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 276 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. 0The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange. 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The American claimant : A romance in new clothes -- 2. Dundreary's whiskers : Yankee dramas -- 3. Fauntleroy's suit : Claimant fictions -- 4. Eleazer's cross : Frederick Douglass' Paper -- 5. Amelia's bloomers : Bleak House refashioned -- 6. Washington's napkin : Claimants in Rome -- 7. Hank's night shirt : Mark Twain, claimant -- 8. Capped and gowned : Education and the African claimant -- Epilogue -- Works cited -- Index. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x English influences. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slavery in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a American literature $x English influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807156 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Slavery in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120515 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Englisch. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Erbe $g Motiv. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Geistesleben. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 650 7 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Heirs in literature. $2 idszbzes 650 7 $a Claims in literature. $2 idszbzes 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031150.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D6F8632DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search