Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations

by Jillmarie Murphy

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the language of empirical science and the physical realities of place, while also investigating non-human agency and that which exists beyond the material realm...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138673269
• ISBN13: 9781138673267
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"