Thousands of Broadways : dreams and nightmares of the American small town / Robert Pinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinsky, Robert.

Series:

Rice University Campbell lectures.

The Rice University Campbell lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life in literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

City and town life in motion pictures.

Cities and towns--United States.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns-their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. Dawson's Landing

II. Broadways

III. Long Branch

IV. Simple, External Problems

V. Frenchman's Bend

VI. Shadows of Doubt

VII. Morgan's Creek

VIII. Moonstone

IX. Long Branch

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612239908

9781282239906

1282239902

9780226669465

0226669467

OCLC:

435911889