TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foote,Stephanie
TI  - Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-century American Literature
SN  - 9780299171131
AV  - PS217 
U1  - 810.932 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Regionalism in literature
KW  - Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Local color in literature
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - United States -- Civilization -- 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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