Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourge Gustafson Sandra M.
Albion W. Tourge (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand…
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Albion W. Tourge (1838-1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool's Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana's law segregating railroad cars, Tourge published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the first collection focused on Tourge's literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era--arguably the greatest for the wide historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested in the rights of African