Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Herron, Ima Honaker 1899- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Pageant Books 1959 [©1939]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1820-1938 Literatur Kleinstadt > Motiv USA Hochschulschrift
Beschreibung:	First published 1939. - Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Small town in America -- American small town versus the English village ; Earlier historical trends : the South, the New England town, the Middle Colonies, Beyond the seaboard ; Modern trends : the small town at the crossroads -- Early New England village in literature -- Contemporary delineators ; Influence of the English village tradition ; Re-creation of the past : Hawthorne and the Colonial tradition ; minor delineators -- New England village in a new light -- Soil for the deepest root ; Transitional portrayers of the Yankee village ; Recorders of the New England decline -- Town, the Brahmins, and others -- Emerson and Concord ; Cheerful yesterdays in old Cambridge ; Brahmin novels of locality ; This barren age of ours -- Heavenly destiny -- Westward movement begins ; Cooperstown : a frontier venture ; New York town in later fiction -- Expounders of the middle border town -- Introduction ; Pioneer goes forth ; Militant realists : Eggleston, Howe, Garland, and others -- Mark Twain and the Mississippi River town -- Long Trail : the Far Western town -- Introduction ; California frontier : Harte and Stevenson ; Boom days in Virginia City ; Range country : Garland, Hough, A.H. Lewis, Wister, and Adams -- Southerntown in back country and Tidewater -- Introduction ; Boom towns in the old Southwest ; Ante-bellum romance ; Post-war trends -- Crusaders and skeptics -- Introduction : the battle of the village ; Village apologists : Riley, Nicholson, Tarkington, and Zona Gale ; Rebellious twenties : Edgar Lee Masters's revolt from the village ; Prophets of the new age : Anderson, Lewis, Dell, and others -- Glance backward
Beschreibung:	XVII, 477 Seiten 23 cm