Loyal subjects
Subtitle: bonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America
By: Elizabeth Duquette.
Series: American literatures initiative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813547800; 9780813547817
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Loyalty in literature; Allegiance in literature; Nationalism in literature; Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pledging allegiance; title: Loyalty, oaths, and the nation; title: One big happy family, again: reconstructing love and loyalty; title: Pledging allegiance in Henry James; title: Loyalty's slaves; title: Philosophies of loyalty.