Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 [electronic resource] : reading the stranger / Leonardo Buonomo.
2014
PS217.N38 .B866 2014eb
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Title
Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 [electronic resource] : reading the stranger / Leonardo Buonomo.
Author
Buonomo, Leonardo.
ISBN
9781611476538 (electronic book)
9781611476521
9781611476521
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
Call Number
PS217.N38 .B866 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/358
Summary
"This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and racial traits, and an unprecedented flowering in American letters, the responses of American authors to outsiders not only contain precious insights into 19th-century America's self-construction, but also serve to illuminate our own time's multicultural societies. The authors under consideration are alternately canonical (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), recently rediscovered (Kirkland), or simply neglected (Arthur). The texts analyzed cover such different genres as diaries, letters, newspapers, manuals, novels, stories, and poems"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: eyes on the stranger
Introduction
Face to face with the stranger. Ralph Waldo Emerson on national identity; Herman Melville's Redburn: in the company of strangers; Nathaniel Hawthorne's foreign reflections
The domestic other. James Fenimore Cooper: defining master and servant; Walt Whitman: a sympathetic glance at "Bridget"
Landscape with strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the changing face of America; Henry David Thoreau and his foreign neighbors
Views from the city
Epilogue.
Introduction
Face to face with the stranger. Ralph Waldo Emerson on national identity; Herman Melville's Redburn: in the company of strangers; Nathaniel Hawthorne's foreign reflections
The domestic other. James Fenimore Cooper: defining master and servant; Walt Whitman: a sympathetic glance at "Bridget"
Landscape with strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the changing face of America; Henry David Thoreau and his foreign neighbors
Views from the city
Epilogue.