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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1. autor: Sundquist, Eric J.
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
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  • "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.