Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860

Reading the Stranger

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
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Author: Leonardo Buonomo ISBN: 9781611476538
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Publication: December 4, 2013
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Language: English
Author: Leonardo Buonomo
ISBN: 9781611476538
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication: December 4, 2013
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language: English

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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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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