Representation of Immigrants in Literature

Representation of Immigrants in Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Immigrant Theme on the American Stage
• Criticism: Immigrants In America
  • American Journeys of the Wandering Jew
  • Reformers, Americanizers, and Cosmopolitans: The Case for the Immigrant
  • Using the Immigrant's Voice: Humor and Pathos in Nineteenth Century ‘Dutch’ Dialect Texts
• Criticism: Immigrants And Labor
  • The ‘Heathen Chinee’ and American Technology
  • Re-Creating Walden: Thoreau's Economy of Work and Play
  • New England Calvinism and the Problem of the Poor in Rebecca Harding Davis's ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’
• Criticism: Immigrants In England
  • Physiognomy: Ancient and Modern
  • Jewish Immigrants in Mayhew's London
  • Bears in the Lion's Den: The Figure of the Russian Revolutionary Emigrant in English Fiction, 1880-1914
• Further Reading