Regionalism and the humanities
By: edited and with an introduction by Timothy R. Mahoney and Wendy J. Katz.
Contributors: Mahoney, Timothy R., 1953-; Katz, Wendy Jean.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780803276345
Subjects: Regionalism -- United States; Humanities -- Study and teaching -- United States; Regionalism in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: regionalism and the humanities: decline or revival? / Wendy J. Katz and Timothy R. Mahoney; title: Sensing place: the authority of nature; title: Dangerous ground: landscape in American fiction / Annie Proulx; title: The ec(h)ological conscience: reflections on the nature of human presence in Great Plains environmental writing / William Slaymaker; title: "I don't know, but I ain't lost": defining the Southwest / Mark Busby; title: A border runs through it: looking at regionalism through architecture in the Southwest / Maggie Valentine; title: Constructing place: the possibility of local representation; title: Willa Cather's case: region and reputation / Guy Reynolds; title: Dwelling within the place worth seeking: the Midwest, regional identity, and internal histories / Ginette Aley; title: Gendered Boosterism: the "doctor's wife" writes from the new Northwest / Barbara Handy-Marchello; title: "With powder smoke and profanity": genre conventions, regional identity, and the palisade gunfight hoax / Nicolas S. Witschi; title: Place is a relationship: regionalism, nationalism, and transnationalism; title: Regionalism and the realities of naming / Stephen C. Behrendt; title: The Midwest as a colony: transnational regionalism / Edward Watts; title: Transcending the urban-rural divide: Willa cather's Thea Kronborg Goes to Chicago / Mark A. Robison; title: Preaching the Gospel of higher vaudeville: Vachel Lindsay's poetic journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and back / Larry W. Moore; title: Place is political: creating regional cultures; title: State pieces in the U.S. regions puzzle: Nevada and the problem of fit / Cheryll Glotfelty; title: Imagining place: Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867 / Kurt E. Kinbacher; title: Architecture crosses region: building in the Grecian style / Patrick Lee Lucas; title: Societies and soirees: musical life and regional character in the South Atlantic / Michael Saffle; title: List of contributors; title: Index.