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American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900
American Blood The Ends of the Family in American Literature 18501900
Author: Holly Jackson
Conventional understandings of the family in nineteenth-century literary studies depict a venerated institution rooted in sentiment, sympathy, and intimacy. American Blood upends this notion, showing how novels of the period frequently emphasize the darker sides of the vaunted domestic unit. Rather than a source of security and warmth, the fami...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199317042
ISBN-10: 0199317046
Publication Date: 11/6/2013
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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