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Author Foote, Stephanie.

Title Regional fictions [electronic resource] : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.

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Description vi, 218 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0299171108 (alk. paper)
0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299171148
9780299171131 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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