Reimagining the Republic (EPUB) von Sandra M. Gustafson

Foreword
Carolyn L. Karcher | xi

Introduction: Literary Tourgée
Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine | 1

Part I: Race
1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman
Robert S. Levine | 19
2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism
John Ernest | 32
3 “Queer Synecdoche”: Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship
Nancy Bentley | 44
4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime
DeLisa D. Hawkes | 57
5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée
Tess Chakkalakal | 70
6 “Their Position Must Be Mined”: Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s
Career-Long Engagement with White Readers
Jennifer Rae Greeson | 84

Part II: Citizenship
7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship
Sandra M. Gustafson | 97
8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction
Kenneth W. Warren | 110
9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw
Christine Holbo | 124
10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn
Molly Ball | 138
11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice
Almas Khan | 151
12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance
Brook Thomas | 165

Part III: Nation
13 “I Don’t Care a Rag for the Union as It Was”: Amputation, the Past,
and the Work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bricks without Straw
Sarah E. Chinn | 181
14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs
and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don
Annemarie Mott Ewing | 194
15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent
Mary B. Hale | 207
16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels
Gregory Laski | 223
17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War
Alex Zweber Leslie | 236

Afterword
Mark Elliott | 251

Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology | 259

Acknowledgments | 263
Selected Bibliography | 265
List of Contributors | 269
Index | 273