Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835-1900
ISBN: 9781137316905
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: History;

This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Emily E. VanDette is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Fredonia.

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