Regional fictions [electronic resource] : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote.
By: Foote, Stephanie.
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BookPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001Description: vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Regionalism in literature | Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | National characteristics, American, in literature | Local color in literature | Nationalism in literature | United States -- Civilization -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/32 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
"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.
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