Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger / Leonardo Buonomo.
"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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Other title: | Reading the stranger. |
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Language: | English |
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Madison [New Jersey] :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.