Home as Found - Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2020
First published:	1979
Authors:	Eric J. Sundquist
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-1-4214-3060-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	1-4214-3060-6
Barcode:	9781421430607

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