Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830โ€“1860
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830โ€“1860

Reading the Stranger

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eBook - ePub

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830โ€“1860

Reading the Stranger

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830โ€“1860 by Leonardo Buonomo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue
  4. Introduction
  5. Face to Face with the Stranger
  6. The Domestic Other
  7. Landscape with Strangers
  8. Views from the City
  9. Epilogue
  10. Bibliography
  11. About the Author
  12. Index