Family money : property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century
Clymer, Jeffory AAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
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American literature
Miscegenation in literature
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
Literature and society
Interracial marriage
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature