Novel bondage
Subtitle: slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America
By: Tess Chakkalakal
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Subjects: Social conditions; Slavery in literature; African Americans in literature; Slaves; Marriage in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the slave-marriage plot; title: Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel; title: Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law; title: Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends; title: "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission; title: Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line; title: Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.