Reimagining the Republic : Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée /
Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v....
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Format: | Licensed eBooks |
Sprog: | engelsk |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2023
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Serier: | Reconstructing America (Series)
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Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv31gd38d |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Foreword / Carolyn L. Karcher
- Introduction : Literary Tourgée / Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine
- Gothic Reconstruction : Hawthorne's House in Tourgée's Toinette and A Royal Gentleman / Robert S. Levine
- Tourgée's A Fool's Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism / John Ernest
- "Queer Synecdoche" : Tourgée's Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship / Nancy Bentley
- Reparations and Passing in Tourgée's Pactolus Prime / DeLisa D. Hawkes
- The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée / Tess Chakkalakal
- "Their Position Must Be Mined" : Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt's Career-Long Engagement with White Readers / Jennifer Rae Greeson
- Reimagining the Republic : Tourgée on Citizenship / Sandra M. Gustafson
- Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction / Kenneth W. Warren
- Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw / Christine Holbo
- The Business of Marriage, Pluralized : Mormonism and Money in Button's Inn / Molly Ball
- Tourgée's New Realism : Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice / Almas Khan
- With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys : Tourgée's Legal Romance / Brook Thomas
- "I Don't Care a Rag for the Union as It Was" : Amputation, the Past, and the Work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Bricks without Straw / Sarah E. Chinn
- Tracking Redress in the West : The Railroad in Tourgée's Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don / Annemarie Mott Ewing
- The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée : The Project of Our Continent / Mary B. Hale
- Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation : Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels / Gregory Laski
- Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War / Alex Zweber Leslie
- Afterword / Mark Elliott.