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.

Author: E. Burleigh
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/21/2014
Pages: 209
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781349487189

About the Author
Erica Burleigh is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA.