Title Family money : property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century / Jeffory Clymer

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in American literary history Oxford studies in American literary history. Contents "This most illegal family": sex, slavery, and the politics of inheritance -- Blood, truth, and consequences: partus sequitur ventrem and the problem of legal title -- Plantation heiress fiction, slavery, and the properties of white marriage -- Reparations for slavery and Lydia Maria Child's reconstruction of the family -- The properties of marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins Summary Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, 'Family Money' reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term distribution of wealth in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012) Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Miscegenation in literature. Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Interracial marriage -- United States Mestizaje in literature. Mestizaje in literature American literature Interracial marriage Intimacy (Psychology) in literature Literature and society Miscegenation in literature English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199980123 0199980128

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