Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870: Bridget's Belfast

ISBN-13: 9781032035062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 222 str.

Kay Retzlaff

Opis

This book explains how class, status, and gender affected individual and community perceptions of ethnicity in a rural New England community. It investigates how stereotype—and immigrants' reactions to a variety of negative receptions—helped create new identities on the frontier.

Spis treści

Prologue  1. Irish in Public  2. Irish Enterprise  3. The Irish "Other"  4. The Irish of Stereotype  5. Irish on the Move  6. Inventing Scotch-Irishness  7. Bridging Social Boundaries  8. Making It Through the War.  Epilogue

O autorze

Kay Retzlaff is Professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta.