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Race, romance, and rebellion : literatures of the Americas in the nineteenth century
- Title
- Race, romance, and rebellion : literatures of the Americas in the nineteenth century / Colleen C. O'Brien.
- Author
- O'Brien, Colleen C., 1969-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 200 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O'Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child-O'Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources--fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises--to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation. -- Publisher website.
- Series Statement
- New World studies
- Uniform Title
- New World studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction : To foment freedom -- "What mischief would follow?" : racial boundaries, antireformers, and white space -- Colored carpenters and white gentlemen : Harriet Jacobs's pedagogy of citizenship -- Desire, conquest, and insurrection in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab -- Republicanism and soul philosophy in Elizabeth Livermore's Zoë -- Reconstruction optimism in Julia Collins's The curse of caste -- The end of romance in Frances Watkins Harper's Minnie's sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-1576
- ISBN
- 9780813934884 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0813934885 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780813934891 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0813934893 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780813934907 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 0813934907 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013004487
- OCLC
- 829387039
- Author
- O'Brien, Colleen C., 1969-
- Title
- Race, romance, and rebellion : literatures of the Americas in the nineteenth century / Colleen C. O'Brien.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New World studiesNew World studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-1576