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Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger / Leonardo Buonomo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611476538 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/358 23
LOC classification:
  • PS217.N38 .B866 2014
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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, during a flowering in American letters, encouraged responses from American authors to outsiders that not only contain precious insights into nineteenth-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.



Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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