Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | E. Burleigh | ISBN: | 9781137404084 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | May 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | E. Burleigh |
| ISBN: | 9781137404084 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | May 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
