Home as Found
Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Published on 26. January 2020
238 pages
978-1-4214-3100-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-3100-0 (9781421431000)
DOI
10.1353/book.67869
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Eric J. Sundquist teaches English at Johns Hopkins University.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. "The Home of My Childhood"
Incest and Imitation in Cooper's Home as Found
Chapter 2. "Plowing Homeward"
Cultivation and Grafting in Thoreau and the Week
Chapter 3. "The Home of the Dead"
Representation and Speculation in Hawthorne and The House of the Seven Gables
Chapter 4. "At Home in His Words"
Parody and Parricide in Melville's Pierre
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. "The Home of My Childhood"
Incest and Imitation in Cooper's Home as Found
Chapter 2. "Plowing Homeward"
Cultivation and Grafting in Thoreau and the Week
Chapter 3. "The Home of the Dead"
Representation and Speculation in Hawthorne and The House of the Seven Gables
Chapter 4. "At Home in His Words"
Parody and Parricide in Melville's Pierre
Notes
Index
