Author: Marion Clifford HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Social Types in Southern Prose Fiction ...
Author: Marion Clifford HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Social Types in Southern Prose Fiction ...
Author: Marion Clifford HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Reinterpretation of American Literature
Author: Norman FoersterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Studies in Philology
Author: Educational Review
Author: Nicholas Murray ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others.
Appalachia on Our Mind
Author: Henry D. ShapiroPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization. Between 1870 and 1900, it became clear that the existence of the "strange land and peculiar people" of the southern mountains challenged dominant notions about the basic homogeneity of the American people and the progress of the United States toward achiving a uniform national civilization. Some people attempted to explain Appalachian otherness as normal and natural -- no exception to the rule of progress. Others attempted the practical integration of Appalachia into America through philanthropic work. In the twentieth century, however, still other people began questioning their assumptions about the characteristics of American civilization itself, ultimately defining Appalachia as a region in a nation of regions and the mountaineers as a people in a nation of peoples. In his skillful examination of the "invention" of the idea of Appalachia and its impact on American thought and action during the early twentieth century, Mr. Shapiro analyzes the following: the "discovery" of Appalachia as a field for fiction by the local-color writers and as a field for benevolent work by the home missionaries of the northern Protestant churches; the emergence of the "problem" of Appalachia and attempts to solve it through explanation and social action; the articulation of a regionalist definition of Appalachia and the establishment of instituions that reinforced that definition; the impact of that regionalistic definition of Appalachia on the conduct of systematic benevolence, expecially in the context of the debate over child-labor restriction and the transformation of philanthropy into community work; and the attempt to discover the bases for an indigenous mountain culture in handicrafts, folksong, and folkdance.
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia
Author: The Viewpoint of the Southern Aristocracy as Reflected in the Fiction of William Gilmore Simms ...
Author: Byron Ralph BryantBloody Breathitt
Author: T.R.C. HuttonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813142431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In turn, the types of violence recorded there corresponded with discernible political scenarios.
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