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Regional fictions : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.Description: vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0299171108 (alk. paper)
  • 0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/32 21
LOC classification:
  • PS217.R44 F66 2001
Contents:
"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.
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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.

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