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This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and racial traits, during a flowering in American letters, encouraged responses from American authors to outsiders that not only contain precious insights into nineteenth-century America's self-construction but also serve to illuminate our own time's multicultural societies. The authors under consideration are alternately canonical (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), recently rediscovered (Kirkland), or simply neglected (Arthur). The texts analyzed cover such different genres as diaries, letters, newspapers, manuals, novels, stories, and poems.
Contents
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
