Regional fictions culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature /

Main Author: Foote, Stephanie.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10413376
Table of 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.