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

ISBN-13: 9780299171100 / Angielski

Stephanie Foote

Opis

This study examines American regionalism, arguing that the colourful local characters, dialects and accents that marked regionalist novels and short stories of the 19th century, were the key to the genre's conversion of seemingly dangerous political differences into appealing cultural quirks.