Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface ix Introduction: To Foment Freedom 1 1 “What Mischief Would Follow?”: Racial Boundaries, Antireformers, and White Space 11 2 Colored Carpenters and White Gentlemen: Harriet Jacobs’s Pedagogy of Citizenship 28 3 Desire, Conquest, and Insurrection in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab 56 4 Republicanism and Soul Philosophy in Elizabeth Livermore’s Zoë 82 5 Reconstruction Optimism in Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste 110 6 The End of Romance in Frances Watkins Harper’s Minnie’s Sacrifice 132 Conclusion 157 Notes 163 Bibliography 179 Index 195 ...