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Autore |
Buonomo Leonardo |
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Titolo |
Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger / / Leonardo Buonomo |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Immigrants in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Race in literature |
Social classes in literature |
Group identity in literature |
Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter One: 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; Chapter Two: The Domestic Other; James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant; Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at "Bridget"; Chapter Three: Landscape with Strangers; Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America; Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors; Chapter Four: Views from the City; Epilogue; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines fiction and nonfiction texts from the period 1830 to 1860 to demonstrate how major and minor American writers constructed their country's identity by contrasting their own |
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