Home as Found Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• Main Author: Sundquist, Eric J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers-James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville-and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pat...