Reimagining the Republic

Foreword

Carolyn L. Karcher | xi

Introduction: Literary Tourgee

Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine | 1

Part I: Race

1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne's House in Tourgee's Toinette and A Royal Gentleman

Robert S. Levine | 19

2 Tourgee's A Fool's Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism

John Ernest | 32

3 "Queer Synecdoche": Tourgee's Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship

Nancy Bentley | 44

4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgee's Pactolus Prime

DeLisa D. Hawkes | 57

5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgee

Tess Chakkalakal | 70

6 "Their Position Must Be Mined": Tourgee in Charles Chesnutt's

Career-Long Engagement with White Readers

Jennifer Rae Greeson | 84

Part II: Citizenship

7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgee on Citizenship

Sandra M. Gustafson | 97

8 Tourgee, 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 Tourgee's New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice

Almas Khan | 151

12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgee'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 Tourgee'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 Tourgee: The Project of Our Continent

Mary B. Hale | 207

16 Tourgee on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels

Gregory Laski | 223

17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgee, and the False Balance of the Civil War

Alex Zweber Leslie | 236

Afterword

Mark Elliott | 251

Albion W. Tourgee: A Chronology | 259

Acknowledgments | 263

Selected Bibliography | 265

List of Contributors | 269

Index | 273

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Citizenship; Civil War; Literary realism; Race; Reconstruction; Slavery; Tourgee, Albion