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- catalog abstract ""On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early-twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America," was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33." "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No")." "This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12204631.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early-twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America," was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33." "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No")." "This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.".
- catalog description "The child is the father of the man -- To escape the reproach of her birth and blood -- The wooing -- One damned night of folly -- Parted.".
- catalog extent "x, 243 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0814706967 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "811/.4 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American authors Biography.".
- catalog subject "African American women authors Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors' spouses United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors's spouses United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 Marriage.".
- catalog subject "Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 Marriage.".
- catalog subject "Married people United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS1557 .A76 2001".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 19th century Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The child is the father of the man -- To escape the reproach of her birth and blood -- The wooing -- One damned night of folly -- Parted.".
- catalog title "Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite / Eleanor Alexander.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".