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...
Uloženo v:
Hlavní autor: | |
---|---|
Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Vydáno: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1979.
|
Edice: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Témata: | |
On-line přístup: | Full text available: |
Tagy: |
Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
|
Obsah:
- "The home of my childhood": incest and imitation in Coopers' Home as found
- "Plowing homeward": cultivation and grafting in Thoreau and the Week
- "The home of the dead": representation and speculation in Hawthorne and The house of seven gables
- "At home in his words": parody and parricide in Melville's Pierre.