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Rural fictions, urban realities : a geography of Gilded Age American literature / Mark Storey.
LIBRA PS374.R87 S76 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storey, Mark, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Rural conditions in literature.
- City and town life in literature.
- Farm life in literature.
- Pastoral fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Pastoral fiction, American.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Lines of time, sight and capital: train journeys
- Commerce and carnival at the canvas city: travelling circuses
- The place of medical knowledge: country doctors
- A government of men and not of laws: lynch mobs
- Geographies of the future: utopias.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199893188
- 0199893187
- OCLC:
- 793099490
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