TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foote,Stephanie
TI  - Regional fictions: culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature 
SN  - 0299171108 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS217.R44 F66 2001
U1  - 810.9/32 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Regionalism in literature
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Local color in literature
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 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
ER  -