Regionalism and the humanities

Regionalism and the humanities

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Mahoney, Timothy R., 1953-, Katz, Wendy Jean
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Regionalism > United States.
Humanities > Study and teaching > United States.
Regionalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Regionalism and the humanities : decline or revival? / Wendy J. Katz & Timothy R. Mahoney
  • Sensing place : the authority of nature
  • Dangerous ground : landscape in American fiction / Annie Proulx
  • The ec(h)ological conscience : reflections on the nature of human presence in Great Plains environmental writing / William Slaymaker
  • "I don't know, but I ain't lost" : defining the Southwest / Mark Busby
  • A border runs through it : looking at regionalism through architecture in the Southwest / Maggie Valentine
  • Constructing place : the possibility of local representation
  • Willa Cather's case : region and reputation / Guy Reynolds
  • Dwelling within the place worth seeking : the Midwest, regional identity, and internal histories / Ginette Aley
  • Gendered Boosterism : the "doctor's wife" writes from the new Northwest / Barbara Handy-Marchello
  • "With powder smoke and profanity" : genre conventions, regional identity, and the palisade gunfight hoax / Nicolas S. Witschi
  • Place is a relationship : regionalism, nationalism, and transnationalism
  • Regionalism and the realities of naming / Stephen C. Behrendt
  • The Midwest as a colony : transnational regionalism / Edward Watts
  • Transcending the urban-rural divide : Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg goes to Chicago / Mark A. Robison
  • Preaching the Gospel of higher vaudeville : Vachel Lindsay's poetic journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and back / Larry W. Moore
  • Place is political : creating regional cultures
  • State pieces in the U.S. regions puzzle : Nevada and the problem of fit / Cheryll Glotfelty
  • Imagining place : Nebraska territory, 1854-1867 / Kurt E. Kinbacher
  • Architecture crosses region : building in the Grecian style / Patrick Lee Lucas
  • Societies and soirees : musical life and regional character in the South Atlantic / Michael Saffle
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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