Reimagining the Republic : : Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée /

Reimagining the Republic : : Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée / / ed. by Robert Levine, Sandra M. Gustafson.

Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Fergus...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ball, Molly,
Bentley, Nancy,
Chakkalakal, Tess,
Chinn, Sarah E.,
Elliott, Mark,
Ernest, John,
Ewing, Annemarie Mott,
Greeson, Jennifer Rae,
Gustafson, Sandra M.,
Hale, Mary B.,
Hale, Mary,
Hawkes, DeLisa D.,
Holbo, Christine,
Karcher, Carolyn L.,
Karcher, Carolyn,
Khan, Almas,
Laski, Gregory,
Leslie, Alex Zweber,
Levine, Robert S.,
Levine, Robert,
Thomas, Brook,
Warren, Kenneth W.,
Warren, Kenneth,
HerausgeberIn:
Gustafson, Sandra M.,
Levine, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Reconstructing America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 6 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Literary Tourgée
  • I Race
  • 1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman
  • 2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism
  • 3 “Queer Synecdoche” Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship
  • 4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime
  • 5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée
  • 6 “Their Position Must Be Mined” Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s Career-Long Engagement with White Readers
  • II Citizenship
  • 7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship
  • 8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction
  • 9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw
  • 10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn
  • 11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice
  • 12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance
  • III Nation
  • 13 “I Don’t Care a Rag for the Union as It Was” Amputation, the Past, and the Work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bricks without Straw
  • 14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don
  • 15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent
  • 16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels
  • 17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War
  • Afterword
  • Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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