Burleigh Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-40408-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 209 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burleigh, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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