This book examines fiction and nonfiction texts from the period 1830 to 1860 to demonstrate how major and minor American writers constructed their country's identity by contrasting their own characteristics with those of innumerable immigrants. Confronted with newcomers whose cultural and social background made them appear more alien than their predecessors, American writers reconsidered their nation's democracy and republicanism, together with its cultural and ethnic heritage, in a context of heated scientific and popular debates about race.
This book examines fiction and nonfiction texts from the period 1830 to 1860 to demonstrate how major and minor American writers constructed their country's identity by contrasting their own characteristics with those of innumerable immigrants. Confronted with newcomers whose cultural and social background made them appear more alien than their predecessors, American writers reconsidered their nation's democracy and republicanism, together with its cultural and ethnic heritage, in a context of heated scientific and popular debates about race.
Leonardo Buonomo is associate professor of American literature at the University of Trieste.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Prologue: Eyes on the Stranger Introduction 1. Face to Face with the Stranger 1.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson on National Identity 1.2. Herman Melville's Redburn: In the Company of Strangers 1.3. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Foreign Reflections 2. The Domestic Other 2.1. James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant 2.2. Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at "Bridget" 3. Landscape with Strangers 3.1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America 3.2. Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors 4. Views from the City Epilogue Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Prologue: Eyes on the Stranger Introduction 1. Face to Face with the Stranger 1.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson on National Identity 1.2. Herman Melville's Redburn: In the Company of Strangers 1.3. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Foreign Reflections 2. The Domestic Other 2.1. James Fenimore Cooper: Defining Master and Servant 2.2. Walt Whitman: A Sympathetic Glance at "Bridget" 3. Landscape with Strangers 3.1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Changing Face of America 3.2. Henry David Thoreau and His Foreign Neighbors 4. Views from the City Epilogue Bibliography Index
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