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Family money

Clymer, Jeffory A.

Family money property, race, and literature in the nineteenth century / [electronic resource] : Jeffory Clymer. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource. - Oxford studies in American literary history . - Oxford studies in American literary history. .

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.

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American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Miscegenation in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Interracial marriage--United States.

PS217.M57 / C58 2013

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