American blood : the ends of the family in American literature, 1850-1900 /

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Author / Creator:	Jackson, Holly.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Families in literature. Families -- Political aspects -- United States. American literature. Families in literature. Families -- Political aspects. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014387

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ISBN:	9780199317059 0199317054 9780199317042 0199317046
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	'American Blood' foregrounds a culture-wide struggle over the definition and value of the family in the nineteenth-century United States. This study offers a new vision of the American novel in this tumultuous period, highlighting works that protest the overvaluation of kinship in American culture, depicting the domestic family as antagonistic to the political enterprise of the United States. Far from venerating the family as the nucleus of the nation, these novels imagine, even welcome, the decline of this institution and the social order it supports.
Other form:	Print version: Jackson, Holly. American blood 9780199317042

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