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Author:

McCullough, Kate, 1961-

Title:

Regions of identity : the construction of America in women's fiction, 1885-1914 / Kate McCullough.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

viii, 361 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Women and literature--United States--History.
Group identity in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Local color in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes index. Bibliography: p. [331]-341.

Contents:

(Re)Drawing boundaries: looking back at a Boston marriage in The country of the pointed firs -- "But some times...I don't marry,-even in books": Boston marriages, Creoles, and the future of the nation -- Slavery, sexuality, and genre: Pauline E. Hopkins's negotiations of (African) American womanhood -- María Amparo Ruis de Burton's geographies of race, regions of religion -- Kate Chopin and (stretching) the limits of local color fiction -- Transnational geographies of race: "Eurasian" communities and the nation in Mrs. Spring Fragrance.

ISBN:

9780804733076 (acid-free paper)
0804733074 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39695813

LCCN:

98036884

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)