Hampton Institute

Hampton Institute
Author: Best Books on
Publisher: Best Books on
Total Pages: 355
Release: 1940
Genre:
ISBN: 1623760666

Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
Author: E. Burleigh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137404086

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.