LEADER 03604nam 2200721 450 001 9910807705303321 005 20230126210906.0 010 $a1-61147-653-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000494224 035 $a(EBL)1577414 035 $a(OCoLC)865334269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001061147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12512815 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11098023 035 $a(PQKB)10360578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1577414 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1577414 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10815275 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL550950 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000494224 100 $a20131219d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImmigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 $ereading the stranger /$fLeonardo Buonomo 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61147-652-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aBuonomo$b Leonardo$0592234 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807705303321 996 $aImmigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860$93933259 997 $aUNINA