Prodigals and Pilgrims
Subtitle: The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800 (Cambridge Paperback Library)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 22, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780521317269
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; General; Intellectual life; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Patriarchy
First sentence: English and American literature of the last half of the eighteenth century shared the same intense thematic preoccupation: familial relations.