Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction: What Difference Does Regional Writing Make? 3 1 “I Feared to Find Myself a Foreigner”: Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs 17 2 The Region of the Repressed and the Return of the Region: Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic 38 3 The History of a Historyless People: Gertrude Atherton’s The Californians 73 4 “The Shadow of the Ethiopian”: George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes 98 5 Disorienting Regionalism: Jacob Riis, the City, and the Chinese Question 124 6 Representation and Tammany Hall: Locating the Body Politic 154 Notes 183 Works Cited 198 Index 206 ...