Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900 [electronic resource] /
VanDette, E.author.
This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sibling Pedagogy: The Brother-Sister Ideal in Domestic Advice and Children's Periodical Literature; 2 Remembering Resistance and Resilience: The Revolutionary Sibling Romances of Sedgwick, Simms, and Kennedy; 3 "She carried the romance of sisterly affection too far": Sibling Love and Violence in Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood; 4 "A whole, perfect thing": Sibling Bonds and Anti-slavery Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
5 Reconstructing Family in the African American Nadir: The Trope of Sibling Affiliation in Works by Harper, Chesnutt, and HopkinsEpilogue: Sibling Romance in/and the Canon;  Or, the Ambiguities; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
America—History.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
Culture—Study and teaching.
History of the Americas.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
US History.
Modern History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.