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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791459203321

Autore

Foote Stephanie

Titolo

Regional fictions [[electronic resource] ] : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / / Stephanie Foote

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001

ISBN

1-282-76409-8

9786612764097

0-299-17113-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/32

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Regionalism in literature

Nationalism - United States - History - 19th century

National characteristics, American, in literature

Local color in literature

Nationalism in literature

United States Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes --  Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.