In this Book
- Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- 1979
- Book
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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summary
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.
Table of Contents


- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- Acknowledgments
- p. xxi
- Half Title 1
- p. xxiii
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421430157
Related ISBN
9781421431000
MARC Record
OCLC
1117477976
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-12
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
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Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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CC-BY-NC-ND