SOURCE: "Whittier's Snow-Bound: The Circle of Our Hearth and the Discourse on Domesticity," in Studies in the American Renaissance 1993, edited by Joel Myerson, University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 339-53.
In the following excerpt, Rocks relates Whittier's poem Snow-Bound to nineteenth-century debates on home and family.
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