Title: The troubled union
Subtitle: expansionist imperatives in post-reconstruction American novels
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, National characteristics, American, in literature, Allegory, American fiction, American literature, American literature, history and criticism
People: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895), Henry James (1843-1916), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
Time periods: 19th century