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Author:

Foote, Stephanie.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Regionalism in literature.
Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Local color in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
United States--Civilization--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: What difference does regional writing make? -- "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.

ISBN:

9780299171100 (alk. paper)
0299171108 (alk. paper)
9780299171148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44764143

LCCN:

00010613

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)