Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger

Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : reading the stranger / Leonardo Buonomo.

"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buonomo, Leonardo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Nationalism and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: eyes on the stranger
  • Introduction
  • Face to face with the stranger. Ralph Waldo Emerson on national identity; Herman Melville's Redburn: in the company of strangers; Nathaniel Hawthorne's foreign reflections
  • The domestic other. James Fenimore Cooper: defining master and servant; Walt Whitman: a sympathetic glance at "Bridget"
  • Landscape with strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the changing face of America; Henry David Thoreau and his foreign neighbors
  • Views from the city
  • Epilogue.

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