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Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers--James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville--and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to...

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Main Author: Sundquist, Eric J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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