This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"-specifically, a foreign culture or nation-as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"-specifically, a foreign culture or nation-as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
John Dolis is professor of English and American studies at Penn State University, Scranton.
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Acknowledgments Pre-lude: Performance Criticism Overture: Benjamin Franklin: A House is not a Home First Movement: Washington Irving: The Cutting Edge of Gross Anatomy Second Movement: Frederick Douglass: Domestic Hardships and Capital Gains Third Movement: Louisa May Alcott: The Dividends of Foreign Exchange Fourth Movement: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Citizen of Somewhere Else Finale: Mark Twain: Beauty and the (B)east Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Pre-lude: Performance Criticism Overture: Benjamin Franklin: A House is not a Home First Movement: Washington Irving: The Cutting Edge of Gross Anatomy Second Movement: Frederick Douglass: Domestic Hardships and Capital Gains Third Movement: Louisa May Alcott: The Dividends of Foreign Exchange Fourth Movement: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Citizen of Somewhere Else Finale: Mark Twain: Beauty and the (B)east Bibliography Index About the Author
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