: the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900
\ Holly Jackson
New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2014
x, 201 p.
:ill.
;25 cm
Index
Bibliography
The transformation of American family property in The House of the Seven Gables -- National reproduction and Clotel's queer mulatta -- The character of a family in Stowe's Dred: on the limits of alternative kinship -- Resisting reunion: Anna Dickinson and the reconstruction politics of friendship -- Why I hate children: the willful sterility of the country of the pointed firs -- Another long bridge: textual atavism in Hagar's Daughter -- Coda: writing in blood: print kinship?.