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Taking the town : collegiate and community culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 / Kolan Thomas Morelock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morelock, Kolan Thomas, 1945-
- Series:
- Thomas D. Clark studies in education, public policy, and social change.
- The Thomas D. Clark studies in education, public policy, and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--Social aspects--Kentucky--Lexington--History.
- Universities and colleges.
- College students--Kentucky--Lexington--Societies, etc--History.
- College students.
- Clubs--Kentucky--Lexington--History.
- Clubs.
- Community life--Kentucky--Lexington--History.
- Community life.
- Lexington (Ky.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Lexington (Ky.).
- Lexington (Ky.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Lexington (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
- Lexington (Ky.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880--1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural ""Athens of the West,"" it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs p
- Contents:
- Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Lexington in the Gilded Age; 2. ""Put Me in Class with the Widow Who Gave the Mite""; 3. Campus Prominence; 4. Community Presence; 5. ""This City's Never Dull""; 6. ""In Her Most Charming, Characteristic Way""; 7. The Dramatic Clubs Take the Stage; Epilogue: Postwar Lexington
- So Long, Gilded Age; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-394) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613233332
- 9780813138831
- 0813138833
- 9780813135113
- 0813135117
- 9781283233330
- 1283233339
- 9780813173054
- 0813173051
- OCLC:
- 299794565
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