Family money
Subtitle: property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century
By: Jeffory A. Clymer
Series: Oxford studies in American literary history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780199897704
Subjects: Interracial marriage; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; Miscegenation in literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; American literature; History
Description: 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.