Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger / / Leonardo Buonomo
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/358 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 |
| ISBN: | 1-61147-653-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807705303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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