Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature /
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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| Aineistotyyppi: | Elektroninen E-kirja |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1979.
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| Yhteenveto: | 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 revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis. |
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| Huomautukset: | Part of Chapter 1 originally appeared as "Incest and Imitation in Cooper's Home as Found, '' 1977 by The Regents of the University of California, and is reprinted from Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 261-84, by permission of The Regents |
| Ulkoasu: | 1 online resource (238 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421430157 |
| Pääsy: | Open Access |