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Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writersJames Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melvilleand considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. "The Home of My Childhood"
Incest and Imitation in Cooper's Home as Found
Chapter 2. "Plowing Homeward"
Cultivation and Grafting in Thoreau and the Week
Chapter 3. "The Home of the Dead"
Representation and Speculation in Hawthorne and The House of the Seven Gables
Chapter 4. "At Home in His Words"
Parody and Parricide in Melville's Pierre
Notes
Index

Home as Found

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421430607
      978-1421430607
      ISBN-10 1421430606
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writersJames Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melvilleand considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgements
      Chapter 1. "The Home of My Childhood"
      Incest and Imitation in Cooper's Home as Found
      Chapter 2. "Plowing Homeward"
      Cultivation and Grafting in Thoreau and the Week
      Chapter 3. "The Home of the Dead"
      Representation and Speculation in Hawthorne and The House of the Seven Gables
      Chapter 4. "At Home in His Words"
      Parody and Parricide in Melville's Pierre
      Notes
      Index

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