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Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860
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Reading the Stranger
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611478679
Veröffentl:
1987
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.02.1987
Seiten:
216
Autor:
Leonardo Buonomo
Gewicht:
358 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Leonardo Buonomo is associate professor of American literature at the University of Trieste.
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.
AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Eyes on the StrangerIntroduction1. Face to Face with the Stranger1.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson on National Identity1.2. Herman Melville's Redburn: In the Company of Strangers1.3. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Foreign Reflections2. The Domestic Other2.1. James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant2.2. Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at "Bridget"3. Landscape with Strangers3.1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America3.2. Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors4. Views from the CityEpilogueBibliographyIndex