Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America
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Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America
University of Illinois Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index
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内容説明
Novel Bondage unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Situating close readings of fiction alongside archival material concerning the actual marriages of authors such as Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb, Chakkalakal examines how these early novels established literary conventions for describing the domestic lives of American slaves in describing their aspirations for personal and civic freedom. Exploring this theme in post-Civil War works by Frances E.W. Harper and Charles Chesnutt, she further reveals how the slave-marriage plot served as a fictional model for reforming marriage laws. Chakkalakal invites readers to rethink the "marital work" of nineteenth-century fiction and the historical role it played in shaping our understanding of the literary and political meaning of marriage, then and now.
目次
- Introduction: The Slave-Marriage Plot
- Between Fiction and Experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel
- Dred and the Freedom of Marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction of Law
- Free, Black, and Married: Frank J. Webb's The Garies and their Friends
- "A Legally Unmarried Race": Frances Harper's Marital Mission
- Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of the Color Line
- Conclusion: Reading Hannah Crafts in the 21st Century Selected
- Bibliography
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