Title: Family
Description: this volume in the Critical Insights series addresses the theme of family in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies. For readers who are studying the theme for the first time, a four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts containing the theme. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches. --from publisher description
Subjects: Literature, Families in literature, Theory, History and criticism, Family in literature, Literature, history and criticism