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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.
Subjects:	Psychoanalysis and literature. Families in literature. Authority in literature. American literature. Autorite dans la litterature. Psychanalyse et litterature. Familles dans la litterature. Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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