Regional fictions
Subtitle: culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Stephanie Foote.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: 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.
Table of contents: title: "I feared to find myself a foreigner" : Sarah Orne Jewett's The country of the pointed firs; title: The region of the repressed and the return of the region : Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic; title: The history of a historyless people : Gertrude Atherton's The Californians; title: "The shadow of the Ethiopian" : George Washington Cable's The grandissimes; title: Disorienting regionalism : Jacob Riis, the city, and the Chinese question; title: Representation and Tammany Hall : locating the body politic.