ABSTRACT
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends from the local and regional, through to national and international settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies, American studies and legal history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|17 pages
Representing union and disunion in art
chapter 1|17 pages
To ‘purchase union thus cheaply’
part II|24 pages
Union and disunion in Europe
part III|1 pages
The politics of union and disunion in Great Britain
chapter 6|21 pages
An ‘illegal Union of Lawyers, and Writers, and Political Baronets’
chapter 7|18 pages
Union Street
part IV|19 pages
Union and disunion in the United States of America
chapter 8|19 pages
The union of enslaved couples during the disunion of the nation
chapter 9|18 pages
Attempting disunion
part V|21 pages
Family division and union