TY - BOOK ID - 61137658 TI - American blood PY - 2013 SN - 0199317054 0199317046 1299832903 0199369259 9780199317059 9780199317042 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Families in literature. KW - Families KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Family in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Families in literature KW - United States KW - Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher KW - Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884. Clotel, or, The President's Daughter (1853) KW - Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. The Country of the Pointed Firs KW - Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61137658 AB - 'American Blood' foregrounds a culture-wide struggle over the definition and value of the family in the nineteenth-century United States. This study offers a new vision of the American novel in this tumultuous period, highlighting works that protest the overvaluation of kinship in American culture, depicting the domestic family as antagonistic to the political enterprise of the United States. Far from venerating the family as the nucleus of the nation, these novels imagine, even welcome, the decline of this institution and the social order it supports. ER -