American blood: the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900

Abstract

Introduction Chapter 1 Transformation of American Property in House of the Seven Gables Chapter 2 National Reproduction and Clotel's Queer Mulatta Chapter 3 The Character of a Family in Stowe's Dred: On the Limits of Alternative Kinship Chapter 4 Resisting Reunion: Anna Dickinson and the Reconstruction Politics of Friendship Chapter 5 Why I Hate Children: Willful Sterility of Country of the Pointed Firs Chapter 6 Another Long Bridge: Textual Atavism in Hagar's Daughter Coda Writing in Blood: Print Kinship?