Family Money

Description:

Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, 'Family Money' reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term distribution of wealth in the United States.

subjects: Interracial marriage,  Intimacy (Psychology) in literature,  Miscegenation in literature,  Literature and society,  History and criticism,  American literature,  History,  American literature, history and criticism, 19th century

Places: United States

Times: 19th century