A companion to the regional literatures of America / edited by Charles L. Crow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crow, Charles L.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 21.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

American literature.

Regionalism in literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Regionalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature. Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches. Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii. Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.

Contents:

A COMPANION TO: THE REGIONAL LITERATURES OF AMERICA; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States; 1 Contemporary Regionalism; 2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism; 3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers; 4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past; 5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal; 6 Realism and Regionalism; 7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave; 8 Regionalism and Ecology

9 The City as Region10 Indigenous Peoples and Place; 11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean; PART II Mapping Regions; 12 New England Literature and Regional Identity; 13 The Great Plains; 14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest; 15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque; 16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths; 17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon; 18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country; 19 The Sagebrush School Revived

20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts; 22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley; 23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region; 24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest; 25 Texas and the Great Southwest; 26 Hawai'i; PART III Some Regionalist Masters; 27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West; 28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions; 29 Willa Cather's Glittering Regions

30 ""I have seen America emerging"": Mary Austin's Regionalism31 ""I have never recovered from the country"": The American West of Wallace Stegner; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610284658

9781782684824

1782684824

9781280284656

128028465X

9781405165181

1405165189

9780470999073

0470999071

9780470999080

047099908X

9781405128988

1405128984

OCLC:

184983750