Family money : property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clymer, Jeffory A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	1800-1899 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 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of 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.