Foote, Stephanie. <br/><br/>
Regional fictions :  culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / 
Stephanie Foote. 
 - Madison :  University of Wisconsin Press,  c2001. 
 - vi, 218 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0299171108 (alk. paper) 0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00010613  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Regionalism in literature.<br/>Nationalism--History--United States--19th century.<br/>National characteristics, American, in literature.<br/>Local color in literature.<br/>Nationalism in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS217.R44  / F66 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/32