Jeffory A. Clymer

Family Money

Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Examing authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, and Lydia Maria Child, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had dramatic, long-term financial consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780190223878
• ISBN-10: 0190223871
• Artikelnr.: 47863013

Autorenporträt

Jeffory A. Clymer is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Family Money
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Blood, Truth, and Consequences: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the
Problem of Legal Title
* Chapter 3
* Plantation Heiress Fiction, Slavery, and the Properties of White
Marriage
* Chapter 4
* Reparations for Slavery and Lydia Maria Child's Reconstruction of the
Family
* Chapter 5
* The Properties of Marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins
* Coda