Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Burleigh, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-05-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137404077

DOI: 10.1057/9781137404084

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 209