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Transnational na(rra)tion : home and homeland in nineteenth-century American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dolis, John, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Pre-lude : performance criticism
  • Overture : Benjamin Franklin : a house is not a home
  • First movement : Washington Irving : the cutting edge of gross anatomy
  • Second movement : Frederick Douglass : domestic hardships and capital gains
  • Third movement : Louisa May Alcott : the dividends of foreign exchange
  • Fourth movement : Nathaniel Hawthorne : a citizen of somewhere else
  • Finale : Mark Twain : beauty and the (b)east.