Whimsical Contrasts”
Love and Marriage in The Minister's Wooing and Our Nig
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16304632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tess Chakkalakal (Tess Chakkalakal, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English at Bowdoin College, has written articles about a number of early African American authors, including Olaudah Equiano, James Weldon Johnson, and Charles W. Chesnutt. Her Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press; her coedited volumes The Novels of Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition and Literature and Jim Crow: New Essays on Sutton E. Griggs are..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-171 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00069 |
| OpenAlex | W2109412010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859), which has been taken to be a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), has more in common with Stowe's The Minister's Wooing (1859). A reimagining of the lines of influence demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of Stowe's appreciation of the free black experience in New England
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |