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

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

Stephanie Foote

256 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In particular, Foote argues that the colorful local characters, dialects, and accents that marked regionalist novels and short stories of the late nineteenth century were key to the genre’s conversion of seemingly dangerous political differences—...

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