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03282aam a2200505 i 4500 001 06BA9C081D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140806010537 008 130819s2014 ndu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013028478 020 $a 1611476526 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781611476521 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)856861081 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d CHVBK $d IAD $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d STF $d DEBBG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS217.N38 $b B86 2014 082 00 $a 810.9/358 $2 23 100 1 $a Buonomo, Leonardo. 245 10 $a Immigration, ethnicity, and class in American writing, 1830-1860 : $b reading the stranger / $c Leonardo Buonomo. 246 30 $a Reading the stranger 264 1 $a Madison [New Jersey] : $b Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xiii, 201 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: eyes on the stranger -- Introduction -- Face to face with the stranger. Ralph Waldo Emerson on national identity; Herman Melville's Redburn: in the company of strangers; Nathaniel Hawthorne's foreign reflections -- The domestic other. James Fenimore Cooper: defining master and servant; Walt Whitman: a sympathetic glance at "Bridget" -- Landscape with strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the changing face of America; Henry David Thoreau and his foreign neighbors -- Views from the city -- Epilogue. 520 $a "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, and an unprecedented flowering in American letters, the responses of American authors to outsiders not only contain precious insights into 19th-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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. 650 0 $a Immigrants in literature. 650 0 $a Ethnicity in literature. 650 0 $a Race in literature. 650 0 $a Social classes in literature. 650 0 $a Group identity in literature. 650 0 $a Nationalism and literature $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Soziale Klasse. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Einwanderung. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Nationalcharakter. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Ethnische IdentitaÌt. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018024212.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826090626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06BA9C081D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search