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Regional fictions : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote.
Van Pelt Library PS217.R44 F66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foote, Stephanie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Regionalism in literature.
- Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- United States.
- History.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- United States--Civilization--19th century.
- Civilization.
- Local color in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: What difference does regional writing make?
- "I feared to find myself a foreigner": Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs
- The region of the repressed and the return of the region: Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic
- The history of a historyless people: Gertrude Atherton's The Californians
- "The shadow of the Ethiopian": George Washington Cable's The grandissimes
- Disorienting regionalism: Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question
- Representation and Tammany Hall: locating the body politic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299171108
- 0299171140
- OCLC:
- 44764143
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