Regional fictions : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature /
Foote, Stephanie.
Regional fictions : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001. - vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes -- Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.
0299171108 (alk. paper) 0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
00010613
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Regionalism in literature.
Nationalism--History--United States--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Local color in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
United States--Civilization--19th century.
PS217.R44 / F66 2001
810.9/32
Regional fictions : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001. - vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
"I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs -- The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes -- Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question -- Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.
0299171108 (alk. paper) 0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
00010613
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Regionalism in literature.
Nationalism--History--United States--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Local color in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
United States--Civilization--19th century.
PS217.R44 / F66 2001
810.9/32