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Title:
A place called home : writings on the midwestern small town
ISBN:
9780873514514
Publication Information:
St. Paul, MN : Borealis Books, c2003.
Physical Description:
437 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
g Part I: $t Formative years, 1790-1900. $t "Economic base" from The Urban Frontier / $r Richard C. Wade -- $t "It answers well for a village" from Sugar Creek / $r John Mack Faragher -- $t Selections from "Autobiography of Mark Twain" / $r Mark Twain -- $t "Private lesson from a bulldog" from Hoosier School-Master / $r Edward Eggleston -- $t "Railroad towns" from Plains country towns / $r John C. Hudson -- $t "Good fellow's wife" from Main-travelled roads / Hamlin Garland $g Part II: Main street ascendant, 1890-1930. $t "Belonging to the community" from Main Street on the Middle Border / $r Lewis E. Atherton -- $t "Hired girls" from My Antonia / $r Willa Cather -- $t Selections from "Poetry of Vachel Lindsay / $r Vachel Lindsay -- $t "Budding of Art" from the Age of indiscretion / $r Clyde Brion Davis -- $t "Storm" from Not without laughter / $r Langston Hughes -- $t Excerpt from Main Street / $r Sinclair Lewis -- $t Selections from Spoon River anthology / $r Edgar Lee Masters -- $t Excerpt from Poor white / $r Sherwood Anderson -- $t "The resurrection" from Midland / $r Ruth Suckow -- $t Excerpt from A peculiar treasure / $r Edna Ferber -- $t "Inventions re-making leisure" from Middletown / $r Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd -- $g Part III: $t Depression, war and resurgence, 1930-60. $t "Growing up in Clear Lake, " personal reminiscence / $r Alan R. Woolworth -- $t "Compromise and its limits" from Main Street in crisis / $r Catherine McNicol Stock -- $t Poems from various collections / $r William Kloefkorn -- $t "Last picture show" from Main Street blues / $r Richard O. Davies -- $t "Nothing happened" from Blooming / $r Susan Allen Thoth -- $g Part IV: $t Crisis on Main Street, 1960-90. $t Selections from Alliance, Illinois / $r Dave Etter -- $t "Quietly thinking over things at Christmas" from Letters from the country / $r Carol Bly -- $t Selections from Poems from the sangamon / $r John Knoepfle -- $t "If the home team doesn't win" from Decline of Rural Minnesota / $r Joseph A. Amato and John W. Meyer -- $t "Sumus quod sumus" from Lake Wobegon Days / $r Garrison Keillor -- $t "Hardball" from Grass Fires / $r Dan Gerber -- "Two-speed" from Light in the Crossing / $r Ken Meyers -- $g Part V: From farm crisis to the present. $t "Decline and denial" from Broken Heartland / $r Osha Gray Davidson -- $t "On the cutting edge: Changes in midwestern meatpacking communities" / $r Donald D. Stull -- $t "Village character: Pioneer store" from Winter book / $r Norbert Blei -- $t "A broken heartland" from U.S. News and World Report $r Jeff Glasser -- $t "Business first and always" from Rethinking home / $r Joseph A. Amato.
Summary:
Decribes the evolving nature of the small midwestern town, from 1800's to present. Long held as an iconic place in American culture, the reality is more complex. This is a collection of writings from historians, novelists, social scientists, poets and journalists featuring well know authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Carol Bly, Willa Cather, Hamlin Graland, Sinclair Lewis, Garrison Keillor, Mark Twain as well as many lessor know but important writers. The five choronological sections trace the founding, growth and decline of the midwestern town.
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