Reimagining the Republic
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0136-5 (ISBN)
This collection changes the way that we view Tourgée by highlighting his contributions as a writer and editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements, Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée reveals a new Tourgée for our moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of Reconstruction.
Sandra M. Gustafson (Edited By) Sandra M. Gustafson is Professor of English and Concurrent Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and a Faculty Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is the author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic and Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America and editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A. Robert Levine (Edited By) Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His recent books are The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and The Lives of Frederick Douglas. Levine is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and the editor and co- editor of a number of volumes.
Foreword
Carolyn L. Karcher | xi
Introduction: Literary Tourgée
Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine | 1
Part I: Race
1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman
Robert S. Levine | 19
2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism
John Ernest | 32
3 “Queer Synecdoche”: Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship
Nancy Bentley | 44
4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime
DeLisa D. Hawkes | 57
5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée
Tess Chakkalakal | 70
6 “Their Position Must Be Mined”: Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s
Career-Long Engagement with White Readers
Jennifer Rae Greeson | 84
Part II: Citizenship
7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship
Sandra M. Gustafson | 97
8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction
Kenneth W. Warren | 110
9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw
Christine Holbo | 124
10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn
Molly Ball | 138
11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice
Almas Khan | 151
12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance
Brook Thomas | 165
Part III: Nation
13 “I Don’t Care a Rag for the Union as It Was”: Amputation, the Past,
and the Work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bricks without Straw
Sarah E. Chinn | 181
14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs
and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don
Annemarie Mott Ewing | 194
15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent
Mary B. Hale | 207
16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels
Gregory Laski | 223
17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War
Alex Zweber Leslie | 236
Afterword
Mark Elliott | 251
Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology | 259
Acknowledgments | 263
Selected Bibliography | 265
List of Contributors | 269
Index | 273
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Reconstructing America |
Co-Autor | Molly Ball, Nancy Bentley, Tess Chakkalakal |
Zusatzinfo | 6 b/w illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5315-0136-2 / 1531501362 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5315-0136-5 / 9781531501365 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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