Leonardo Buonomo

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 (eBook, PDF)

Reading the Stranger

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683938392
• Artikelnr.: 74397198

Autorenporträt

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

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