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American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900
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American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 / Holly Jackson.
ISBN
9780199369256 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 11, 2013).
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Summary
'American Blood' foregrounds a culture-wide struggle over the definition and value of the family in the nineteenth-century United States. This study offers a new vision of the American novel in this tumultuous period, highlighting works that protest the overvaluation of kinship in American culture, depicting the domestic family as antagonistic to the political enterprise of the United States. Far from venerating the family as the nucleus of the nation, these novels imagine, even welcome, the decline of this institution and the social order it supports.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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September 03, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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