Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

" [This book] balances informative synopses with provocative and carefully reasoned observations and conclusions . . . Recommended. " - CHOICE

' Moving across a number of sophisticated theoretical and jurisprudential problems with great lucidity, Erica Burleigh' s Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing returns to and reignites feminist debates about family figures in early American writing. The book engages a much more ambitious historical trajectory than similar works, demonstrating how debates about slavery repurposed an early national rhetoric of familial disunion, and nuancing our understanding of race in anti-abolitionist rhetoric. A fascinating and welcome intervention. ' Jordan Alexander Stein, Assistant Professor of English, Fordham University, USA