Regional fictions [electronic resource] : culture and identity in nineteenth-century American literature / Stephanie Foote.
Publication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.Description: vi, 218 p. : illISBN:- 0299171108 (alk. paper)
- 0299171140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780299171148
- 9780299171131 (e-book)
- 810.9/32 21
- PS217.R44 F66 2001eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
"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.
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