Imagining Italians : the clash of romance and race in American perceptions, 1880-1910 / / Joseph P. Cosco
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Cosco Joseph P
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Imagining Italians : the clash of romance and race in American perceptions, 1880-1910 / / Joseph P. Cosco
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.85/1073/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Italian Americans - Public opinion |
| Immigrants - United States - Public opinion | |
| Italian Americans - Social conditions - 19th century | |
| Italian Americans - Social conditions - 20th century | |
| Immigrants - United States - Social conditions | |
| Public opinion - United States | |
| Italian Americans in literature | |
| Racism - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Racism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Ethnic relations |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-226) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Magnificently Miserable Italians and Their Wretched, Princely Italy -- Jacob Riis: Immigrants Old and New, and the Making of Americans -- Edward Steiner: All is (Not) Race? -- Henry James’S Picturesque Peasants: Heroes of Romance or Modern Men? -- Henry James’S “Flagrant Foreigners”: Whose Country is this Anyway? -- Mark Twain: Racism, Nativism, and the Twinning of Italianness -- Conclusion: The Fight for Whiteness -- Notes -- Bibliography |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America's cultural pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian "racial odyssey" in America. It examines how American representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with national debates over immigration, race, and national identity during the period 1880–1910. Joseph P. Cosco offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and American iconographic writers Henry James and Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in journalism, photos, travel narratives, and fiction, he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers fresh readings of Riis's reform efforts and photography, James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining Italians |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8662-1 |
| 1-4175-3608-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819912603321 |
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