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Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860
Reading the Stranger
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2013
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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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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-652-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-653-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
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Acknowledgments No access
Prologue No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Ralph Waldo Emerson on National Identity No access
Herman Melville’s Redburn: In the Company of Strangers No access
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Foreign Reflections No access
James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant No access
Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at “Bridget” No access
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America No access
Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors No access
Chapter Four: Views from the City No access Pages 141 - 176
