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Book SynopsisExamines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in American literature
Trade ReviewRough Writing is much more than a fascinating account of the little-known relationship between an American president and the immigrant authors whose work he promoted in the service of a new national narrative. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, Rough Writing enables us to see a vital period in American literature through new eyes. -- Laura Browder,author of Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
Taubenfeld[& s] literary-cultural studies add to the already compelling body of evidence that the development of literature, economics, and politics has been inextricably connected throughout U.S history. * American Literary History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Mendel's Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill and the Science of the Crucible 2. Two Flags to Love: Jacob Riis and the Transnational American at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Making American Homes and America Home: Theodore Roosevelt and Elizabeth Stern in the Pages of the Ladies' Home Journal 4. "Threatin' Him as a Akel": Finley Peter Dunne's Ethnic Critique of "True Americanism" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
