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Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
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Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
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Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

by E. Burleigh
Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

by E. Burleigh

Overview

Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349487189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 05/21/2014
Edition description: 1st ed. 2014
Pages: 209
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Erica Burleigh is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Intimacy, Integrity, Interdependence 1. Discursive Intimacy: Franklin Reads the Spectator with Bifocals 2. 'Regular Love,' Incest, and Intimacy in The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette 3. Incommensurate Equivalences: Genre, Representation, and Equity in Clara Howard and Jane Talbot 4. Sisters in Arms: Incest, Miscegenation, and Sacrifice in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie 5. 'Mangled and Bleeding' Facts: Proslavery Novels and the Temporality of Sentiment 6. Bibliography
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