Will the circle be unbroken?
Subtitle: family and sectionalism in the Virginia novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845
By: John L. Hare.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 -- Knowledge -- Virginia; Caruthers, William Alexander, 1802-1846 -- Knowledge -- Virginia; Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 1820-1890 -- Knowledge -- Virginia; American fiction -- Virginia -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia; Sectionalism (United States); Family in literature; Virginia -- Intellectual life; Virginia -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Generational progress in swallow barn; title: An ardent desire: Kentuckian in New York; title: Authority and affection: Cavaliers of Virginia; title: Whigs and covert missions: Horse-Shoe Robinson; title: Birthright and authority: George Balcombe; title: The family restructured: the partisan leader; title: Mistaken identity: Rob of the bowl; title: To the west: knights of the horseshoe.