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Spoon River America : Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town / Jason Stacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stacy, Jason, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950. Spoon River anthology.
- Masters, Edgar Lee.
- City and town life in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- American poetry--Middle West--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Middle West--In literature.
- Middle West.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A literary and cultural milestone, 'Spoon River Anthology' captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, 'Spoon River Anthology' won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes-populist, elite, and exile - that endure across the landscape of American culture in the 21st century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Origin Stories
- 2. The Premodern Midwest
- 3. Frontiers: Closed and Opened
- 4. Rampant Yokelisms
- 5. Reception
- 6. The Village Revolt
- 7. Main Street, U.S.A.
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2021).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780252052736
- 0252052730
- OCLC:
- 1221016190
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