Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing [electronic resource] /
Burleigh, E.author.
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.
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Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Intimacy, Integrity, Interdependence ; Chapter 1: Discursive Intimacy: Franklin Reads The Spectator with Bifocals; The Public, the Private, and Gossip; Tattling Like Men; Female Tattling, Female Spectating; Franklin's Scandalizing Ladies; Polly Baker; Chapter 2: "Regular Love," Incest, andIntimacy in The Power of Sympathyand The Coquette; Kinship Violent and Violated; Familiarity and Familiality; The Power of Sympathy; The Coquette
Chapter 3: Incommensurate Equivalences: Genre, Representation, and Equity inClara Howard and Jane TalbotGenre, Law, and Sentimental Expectations; Clara Howard's Will; Jane Talbot's Witness; Arthur Mervyn's Obligations; Chapter 4: Sisters in Arms: Incest, Miscegenation, and Sacrifice inCatharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Early Accounts of Incest; Race and Character; Cousins, Parents, and Children; Brothers and Sisters; Liberty, Equality- and Especially Fraternity; Chapter 5: "Mangled and Bleeding" Facts: Proslavery Novels and theTemporality of Sentiment; Sentiment and Temporality
Facts, Bodies, and AbstractionsUnbought Affections; Law, Promise, and Reputation; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry.
Fiction.
America—Literatures.
Literature—Philosophy.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.