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.

Publication Year: 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 3796