{"id":44557,"date":"2015-12-10T03:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44557"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:33:25","slug":"a-romance-of-the-republic%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44557","title":{"rendered":"A Romance of the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/live\/title_detail.php?titleid=1637\" target=\"_blank\">A Romance of the Republic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\" target=\"_blank\">University Press of Kentucky<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-11 (Originally published in 1867)<br \/>\n464 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0928-2<br \/>\nWeb PDF ISBN: 978-0-8131-4910-3<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lydia_Maria_Child\" target=\"_blank\">Lydia Maria Child<\/a><\/strong> (1802-1880)<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/dana-nelson\" target=\"_blank\">Dana D. Nelson<\/a><\/strong>, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/live\/title_detail.php?titleid=1637\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/covers\/9780813109282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Romance of the Republic<\/em>, published in 1867, was Lydia Maria Child\u2019s fourth novel and the capstone of her remarkable literary career. Written shortly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>, it offered a progressive alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em><\/a>. Writer, magazine publisher and outspoken <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abolitionism\" target=\"_blank\">abolitionist<\/a>, Child defied the norms of gender and class decorum in this novel by promoting interracial marriage as a way blacks and whites could come to view each other with sympathy and understanding. In constructing the tale of fair-skinned Rosa and Flora Royal\u2014daughters of a slaveowner whose mother was also the daughter of a slaveowner\u2014Child consciously attempted to counter two popular claims: that racial intermarriage was \u201cunnatural\u201d and that slavery was a benevolent institution. But Child\u2019s target was not merely racism. Her characters are forced both to reconsider their attitudes toward \u201cwhite\u201d and \u201cblack\u201d and to question the very foundation of the patriarchal society in which they live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Romance of the Republic University Press of Kentucky 2014-07-11 (Originally published in 1867) 464 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0928-2 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8131-4910-3 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Edited by: Dana D. Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6940,20],"tags":[22237,22238,77,11745],"class_list":["post-44557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-dana-d-nelson","tag-dana-nelson","tag-lydia-maria-child","tag-university-press-of-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46216,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44557\/revisions\/46216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}