Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction: Literary Tourgée 1
5. I Race
6. 1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman 19
7. 2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism 32
8. 3 “Queer Synecdoche” Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship 44
9. 4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime 57
10. 5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée 70
11. 6 “Their Position Must Be Mined” Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s Career-Long Engagement with White Readers 84
12. II Citizenship
13. 7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship 97
14. 8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction 110
15. 9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw 124
16. 10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn 138
17. 11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice 151
18. 12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance 165
19. III Nation
20. 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 181
21. 14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don 194
22. 15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent 207
23. 16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels 223
24. 17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War 236
25. Afterword 251
26. Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology 259
27. Acknowledgments 263
28. Selected Bibliography 265
29. Contributors 269
30. Index 273