Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845. By John L. Hare. New York: Routledge, 2002. 192 pp. $70.00. Recent studies of antebellum Southern literature are often focused primarily on the view of slavery expressed in the books under discussion or on how the writers are defending the region against Northern abolitionist attacks, as if the Civil War was already being waged some thirty years before the first shot was fired. John Hare's new study, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845, published in Routledge's Outstanding …