03604nam 2200721 450 991080770530332120230126210906.01-61147-653-4(CKB)2670000000494224(EBL)1577414(OCoLC)865334269(SSID)ssj0001061147(PQKBManifestationID)12512815(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061147(PQKBWorkID)11098023(PQKB)10360578(MiAaPQ)EBC1577414(Au-PeEL)EBL1577414(CaPaEBR)ebr10815275(CaONFJC)MIL550950(EXLCZ)99267000000049422420131219d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImmigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 reading the stranger /Leonardo BuonomoLanham, Maryland :Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-652-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 characteristics with those of innumerable immigrants. Confronted with newcomers whose cultural and social background made them appear more alien than their predecessors, American writers reconsidered their nation's democracy and republicanism, together with its cultural and ethnic heritage, in a context of heated scientific and popular debates about race. American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureImmigrants in literatureEthnicity in literatureRace in literatureSocial classes in literatureGroup identity in literatureNationalism and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureHistory 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 literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistory810.9/358Buonomo Leonardo592234MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807705303321Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-18603933259UNINA