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Imagining Italians : the clash of romance and race in American perceptions, 1880-1910 / Joseph P. Cosco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cosco, Joseph P.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Italian/American culture
- SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian Americans--Public opinion.
- Italian Americans.
- Immigrants--United States--Public opinion.
- Immigrants.
- Italian Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- Italian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- Italian Americans in literature.
- Racism--United States--History--19th century.
- Racism.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791486627
- 0791486621
- 9781417536085
- 141753608X
- OCLC:
- 61367781
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