Leonardo Buonomo

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860

Reading the Stranger

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines fiction and nonfiction texts from the period 1830 to 1860 to demonstrate how major and minor American writers constructed their country's identity by contrasting their own characteristics with those of innumerable immigrants. Confronted with newcomers whose cultural and social background made them appear more alien than their predecessors, American writers reconsidered their nation's democracy and republicanism, together with its cultural and ethnic heritage, in a context of heated scientific and popular debates about race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781611476521
• ISBN-10: 1611476526
• Artikelnr.: 39186115

Autorenporträt

By Leonardo Buonomo

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Prologue: Eyes on the Stranger Introduction 1. Face to Face with the Stranger 1.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson on National Identity 1.2. Herman Melville
s Redburn: In the Company of Strangers 1.3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
s Foreign Reflections 2. The Domestic Other 2.1. James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant 2.2. Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at
Bridget
3. Landscape with Strangers 3.1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America 3.2. Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors 4. Views from the City Epilogue Bibliography Index