Home as Found Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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 pat...
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2019
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