num_pages: 208
description: This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written. It argues that authors used familial processes as metephors to discuss critical issues.
language: English
title: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845
titlecomplete: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
publisher: Routledge