Sibling Romance in American Fiction, 1835–1900

1. Introduction
Emily E. VanDette

2. Sibling Pedagogy: The Brother-Sister Ideal in Domestic Advice and Children’s Periodical Literature
Emily E. VanDette

3. Remembering Resistance and Resilience: The Revolutionary Sibling Romances of Sedgwick, Simms, and Kennedy
Emily E. VanDette

4. “She carried the romance of sisterly affection too far”: Sibling Love and Violence in Caroline Lee Hentz’s Ernest Linwood
Emily E. VanDette

5. “A whole, perfect thing”: Sibling Bonds and Anti-slavery Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Dred
Emily E. VanDette

6. Reconstructing Family in the African American Nadir: The Trope of Sibling Affiliation in Works by Harper, Chesnutt, and Hopkins
Emily E. VanDette

7. Epilogue: Sibling Romance in/and the Canon; Or, the Ambiguities
Emily E. VanDette

Avainsanat: History, History of the Americas, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, US History, Modern History, Cultural and Media Studies, general