Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

By Erica Burleigh

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134948718X
• ISBN13: 9781349487189
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"