@article{711038,
      recid = {711038},
      author = {Buonomo, Leonardo.},
      title = {Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing,  1830-1860 reading the stranger / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/711038},
}