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When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

Nationalism and literature --- Nationalism in literature. --- Allegiance in literature. --- Loyalty in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- American literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Literature and the war. --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Allegiance in literature --- Nationalism in literature --- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Literature and the war --- James, Henry --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- Page, Thomas Nelson --- Royce, Josiah

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Contracten in de literatuur --- Contracts in literature --- Contrats dans la littérature --- Droit dans la littérature --- Law in literature --- Littérature réaliste --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Promise (Law) in literature --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Recht in de literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Social ethics in literature --- Social status in literature --- Sociale positie in de literatuur --- Statut social dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Contracts in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Literature and society --- Promise (Law) in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Social ethics in literature. --- Social status in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Contracts --- Twain, Mark --- Criticism and interpretation --- James, Henry --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Hay, John Milton --- Lynde, Francis --- Tourgee, Albion Winegar --- Phillips, David Graham --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era.

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Criticism and interpretation --- Eliot, George --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- American fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- English influences --- English fiction --- American influences --- Authorship --- Collaboration --- English literature --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- English influences. --- American influences. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, --- Eliot, George, --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- Phelps, E. Stuart --- E. S. P. --- P., E. S. --- Author of Gates ajar, --- Gates ajar, Author of, --- Author of Up hill, --- Up hill, Author of, --- Author of Ellen's idol, --- Ellen's idol, Author of, --- Author of Gypsy series, --- Gypsy series, Author of, --- Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, --- Adams, Mary, --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet, --- Stowe, H. B. --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher-, --- Stowe, Enriqueta B., --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth, --- Bicher-Stou, G. --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet, --- Stou, Garriet Bicher-, --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et, --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣ. --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher-, --- Beecher-Stowe, Harriet, --- Ssu-tʻu-huo, --- Beecher-Stowe, H. --- Stowe, H. Beecher-, --- Bētser-Stoou, --- Crowfield, Christopher, --- Beecher, H. --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar, --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er, --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ, --- ביטשער סאאו --- ביטשער־סטאו --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער, --- סטו, ביצ׳ר, --- ハリエットビーチャーストウ, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Beecher Stowe, Harriet --- Beecher Stowe, Henriette --- Beecher Stowe, H. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher --- -Stowe, Enriqueta B. --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet --- Stou, Garriet Bicher --- -Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher --- -Beecher-Stowe, Harriet --- Ssu-tʻu-huo --- Stowe, H. Beecher --- -Bētser-Stoou --- Crowfield, Christopher --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ

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Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise on sexual selection, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works on evolution, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers. These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature.In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their character's courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate.Bringing the resources of the history of science and intellectual history to this, the first full-length study of the impact of Darwin's theories in American literature, Bender revises accepted views of social Darwinism, American literary realism, and modernism in American literature, forever changing our perceptions of courtship and sexual interaction in American fiction from 1871 to 1926 and beyond.

Amour dans la littérature --- Choix du conjoint dans la littérature --- Courtiser dans la littérature --- Courtship in literature --- Evolutie (Biologie) in de literatuur --- Evolution (Biologie) dans la littérature --- Evolution (Biology) in literature --- Hofmaken in de literatuur --- Hommes et femmes [Relations entre ] dans la littérature --- Liefde in de literatuur --- Love in literature --- Man-vrouw relaties in de literatuur --- Man-woman relationships in literature --- Mate selection in literature --- Partnerskeuze in de literatuur --- Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sex in literature --- Sexe dans la littérature --- American fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Love stories [American ] --- Literature and science --- United States --- History --- Darwin, Charles Robert --- Influence --- English influences --- Howells, William Dean --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Wharton, Edith Newbold --- Frederic, Harold --- James, Henry --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- Jewett, Sarah Orne --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Sex in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Courtship in literature. --- Mate selection in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Love stories, American --- English influences. --- History and criticism. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence. --- American romance fiction --- Romance fiction, American