The troubled union
Subtitle: expansionist imperatives in post-reconstruction American novels
By: John Morán González.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814211298; 9780814292280
Subjects: James, Henry, -- 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation; Jackson, Helen Hunt, -- 1830-1885 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, -- 1832-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Allegory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory; title: Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity; title: The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona; title: Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don; title: Epilogue : decentering national allegory.