Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger /

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"This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buonomo, Leonardo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1800-1899
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.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
Nationalisme et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Social classes in literature
Race in literature
Nationalism and literature
Literature and society
Group identity in literature
Ethnicity in literature
American literature
Immigrants in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
United States
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: eyes on the stranger
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • The domestic other. James Fenimore Cooper: defining master and servant; Walt Whitman: a sympathetic glance at "Bridget"
  • Landscape with strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the changing face of America; Henry David Thoreau and his foreign neighbors
  • Views from the city
  • Epilogue.

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