Screen LibrarySibling romance in American fiction, 1835-1900
This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, sla...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137316905 |
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This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. "Van Dette is the first scholar to explore the important issue of brother-sister ties in nineteenth-century American literature. She argues convincingly that domestic fiction writers used the sibling relationship to address the tensions between independence and solidarity during the nation's long crisis of union. Lucid and accessible, this book will be of interest to scholars of American literature, American history, American studies, and family studies." - C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College, USA. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137287182, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 218 p. : 4 b&w, ill. |
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9781137287182 9781137316905 : 113731690X : |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Contents: | 1. Sibling Pedagogy: The Brother-Sister Ideal in Domestic Advice and Children's Periodical Literature 2. Remembering Resistance and Resilience: The Revolutionary Sibling Romances of Sedgwick, Simms, and Kennedy 3. 'She carried the romance of sisterly affection too far': Sibling Love in Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood 4. 'A whole, perfect thing': Sibling Bonds and Anti-slavery Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred 5. Reconstructing Siblings in the African American Nadir: Siblings in Post-Reconstruction Novels by Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and Charles Chesnutt Epilogue: Sibl |