American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900 by Holly Jackson

American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900

Holly Jackson

201 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced
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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 t...

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