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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Overview
Originally published in 1979. 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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- ISBN-13: 9781421430607
- ISBN-10: 1421430606
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: October 2019
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 238
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