The Pacific Northwest
Subtitle: growth of a regional identity
By: Raymond D. Gastil and Barnett  Singer.
Contributors: Singer, Barnett.
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786445400
Subjects: Regionalism -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Group identity -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Authors, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Artists -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; American literature -- Northwest, Pacific -- History and criticism; Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Arts -- Political aspects -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Political culture -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Northwest, Pacific -- Intellectual life; Northwest, Pacific -- Social conditions
Description: "This book describes the Pacific Northwest's search for a regional identity from the first Indian-European contacts through the late twentieth century, identifying those individuals and groups "who at least struggled to give meaning to the Northwest experience." It places particular emphasis on nineteenth-century writers and other celebrated individuals in the arts"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The bitter spiritual harvest of displacement; title: The business and moral notables : respectability,   refinement, enlightenment; title: Literature of the frontier; title: Populists, progressives, and radicals; title: The Northwest achievement of V.L. Parrington; title: Literature and the development of the Northwest novel; title: Reflecting the Northwest : historical and other non-fiction; title: Writing; title: Distinguished achievement : Northwest poetry since World War II.