This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. Van Dette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Spis treści
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: Sibling Romance in/and the Canon; Or, the Ambiguities
O autorze
Emily E. Van Dette is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Fredonia.
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