Foote, Stephanie. <br/><br/>
Regional Fictions :  Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-century American Literature. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (225 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Difference Does Regional Writing Make? -- 1. "I Feared to Find Myself a Foreigner": Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs -- 2. The Region of the Repressed and the Return of the Region: Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic -- 3. The History of a Historyless People: Gertrude Atherton's The Californians -- 4. "The Shadow of the Ethiopian": George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes -- 5. Disorienting Regionalism: Jacob Riis, the City, and the Chinese Question -- 6. Representation and Tammany Hall: Locating the Body Politic -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780299171131 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.<br/>Regionalism in literature.<br/>Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.<br/>National characteristics, American, in literature.<br/>Local color in literature.<br/>Nationalism in literature.<br/>United States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS217 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.932