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...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Stephanie Little Brothers of the Rich: Foote Queer Families in the Gilded Age ​Elizabeth Drexel Lehr’s “King Lehr” and the Gilded Age (1935) took its title from the name gossip columnists had given her husband...

... as a “logic and ethic of recovery” to a new focus, instead, on animating the mysteries of the past. With the example of James Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef (and Sally Hemings’s older brother), this essay shows how a set of techniques associated with the digital humanities—in particular, techniques...

...Figure 9 Jack in the Warner Brothers archive ...

... an alternative solution. Marshal- ing evidence from newspapers, letters, and memoirs, he proposes that Poe was followed on a fateful boat and train trip by three brothers of Elmira Shelton, a wealthy widow...

..., the shared bed of brother and sister. Even so, what most powerfully brings these two texts together is not just the abandonment of sibling chastity but the desertion of a single rhetorical strategy. In the specific context ofThe Power of Sympathy and Pierre, the term anti-novel describes...

... Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Musician 251 1900 and 1906, Johnson, his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, and Bob Cole together wrote popular songs that quickly launched ‘‘Cole and Johnson Brothers’’ as the most successful black...

... Stories (1991), Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata (1998), Octavia But- ler’s Kindred (1976), Wild Seed (1980), and Parable of the Sower (1992), Stephen Barnes’s Blood Brothers (1996) and Lion’s Blood (2002), and James McBride’s Song Yet Sung (2008).3 Taken together, these novels actually...

... were to blame for his fatal mistake? Or is it Clara, who, immediately before this, about to be murdered by her brother, commanded Carwin to mimic God’s voice and end Theodore’s mania? Or is it, again, Theodore, who provoked Clara to shriek this command by announcing that God ordered him to kill her...

... is not troubled evidently with a conscience, for, although he habitually separates parent from child, brother from sister, and husband from wife, he . . . never evinces the least sign of remorse. (1860, 139–40) Clearly, Hundley’s remorseless “Negro Trader” is one of the key characters through whom...

... an older Indian man. Thus for the widow, death becomes a The Widow(s) of Malabar  651 meaningless form, even a defilement of her original love. In addition, the widow’s priestly brother, who only reveals himself as such to her well into the play, also has...

... in the third sequence of poems in The Summer of Black Widows. As the speaker mourns his sister after her death in a house fire, he struggles not only with the relationship between sister and brother but also between fire and smoke—death and its signs. In this sequence, the danger of the spoken word comes...

... of the novel Gerty matures into her own romantic desire, which is directed in the manner typical of the orphan genre: at her adoptive brother. Willie, recently returned from business in India, had in childhood fulfilled the myriad roles of “teacher, her protector, the partner of all her childish amusements...

... Race and Invisible Man’s Automata The final event in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) prior to its epilogue is among the novel’s most puzzling and cryptic: the narrator dreams that a band of men, led by the Communist Brother Jack, castrate him and hang the “blood...

... ( 1795 ). 16 McLoughlin Brothers issued chapbook and toy editions of Robinson Crusoe in six pages, eight pages, twelve pages, sixteen pages, and twenty-six pages, as well as Lucy Aikin’s Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (1868), a ninety-three-page abridgment for early readers. 17...

... Star of 14 January, Douglass cites “The Land of Liberty: Recommended to the Consider- ation of ‘Brother Jonathan a cartoon drawn by Richard Doyle for the 4 December 1847 issue of Punch (fig. 2). Typical of U.S. abolitionist strategies of iconography, this primal scene of brutality operates...

... more famil- iar and, one might argue, far more comfortable for her white audience than her own story of education and accomplishment: In looking round on my school mates, I observe one among them who excites my most tender solicitudes. It is my Brother. John, this I feel...

...’’ to the Rogerses if the twins would be raised as brothers. ‘‘We’re giving him up because we love him Donna Fasano explained to reporters.3 In May 1999, one day after Mother’s Day,astheWashington Post duly noted, the Fasanos relinquished the child to the Rogerses, who renamed him Akiel.4 The pact between...

... letter to Fowler’s other brother-in-law, sent from Lebanon on August 26, 1766, attests (McCallum 1932 : 104–5). 9 One of the few historical accounts of this episode takes Occom’s brief diary entry at face value and fills in the opacities with infelicitous cliché. The Oneida, Silverman ( 2010...