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Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860: Reading the Stranger - Hardcover

Leonardo Buonomo

 
9781611476521: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860: Reading the Stranger
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1611476526 ISBN 13: 9781611476521
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (UK), 2014

Synopsis

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 and racial traits, during a flowering in American letters, encouraged responses from American authors to outsiders that not only contain precious insights into nineteenth-century America’s self-construction but also serve to illuminate our own time’s multicultural societies. The authors under consideration are alternately canonical (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), recently rediscovered (Kirkland), or simply neglected (Arthur). The texts analyzed cover such different genres as diaries, letters, newspapers, manuals, novels, stories, and poems.

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About the Author

Leonardo Buonomo is associate professor of American literature at the University of Trieste.

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Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (UK)
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1611476526
ISBN 13 
9781611476521
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
212