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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
John L. Hare
Hardcover. Routledge 2002-08.
ISBN 9780415941570
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This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the
political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were
written, arguing that the authors used familial processes as a metaphor to
discuss issues that they regarded as critical. Each chapter focuses on a single
novel - Swallow Barn , Kentuckian in New York , Cavaliers of Virginia ,
Horse-Shoe Robinson , George Balcombe , The Partisan Leader , and Knights of
the Horseshoe - and examines its connections to the social and political
tensions of the time of its publication - general progress, sectional unity,
executive authority, class relations, the nature of the ideal leader, relations
among sections and states, socialist and perfectionist communities, and
westward expansion. Read against this background, the Virginian novels of John Pendleton
Kennedy, William Alexander Caruthers and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker can be shown
to employ representations of courtship, marriage, parenthood and sibling
relations to explore metaphorically some of the political tensions of the
period, including the relationship among states, the relationship of the
central government and the states, the structure and basis of community and the
nature of the ideal leader. This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the
political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were
written. It argues that authors used familial processes as metephors to discuss
critical issues.
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