Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature

by Mary Paniccia Carden

Book Overview

At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature re-examines a defining national discourse. Exploring the dilemmas of U.S. subjects positioned as inheritors-and thus as children-of the archetypal self-made Founder/Father, the author offers a critical re-evaluation of the trope of self-making as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611485096
• ISBN13: 9781611485097
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"