{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-regional-literatures-of-america-hardback-9780631226314","title":"A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Hardback) 9780631226314","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to the Regional Literatures of America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles L. Crow (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631226314, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e624 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 1.361 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A \u003ci\u003eCompanion to the Regional Literatures of America\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant achievement and could prove a powerful tool for those who wish to make considerations of space and place even more central to their disciplines.\u003ci\u003e” Jeremy Wells, Western American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In short, Charles L. Crow's volume is a must, an essential purchase.' \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I History and Theory of Regionalism in the United States 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Contemporary Regionalism 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Kowalewski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Cultural Work of American Regionalism 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephanie Foote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Letting Go our Grand Obsessions: Notes toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnette Kolodny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Region and Race: National Identity and the Southern Past 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLori Robison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Regionalism in the Era of the New Deal 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauren Coats and Nihad M. Farooq\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Realism and Regionalism 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Taking Feminism and Regionalism toward the Third Wave 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrista Comer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Regionalism and Ecology 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Mazel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The City as Region 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Kyung-Jin Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Indigenous Peoples and Place 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eP. Jane Hafen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Borders, Bodies, and Regions: The United States and the Caribbean 171\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVera M. Kutzinski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Mapping Regions 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 New England Literature and Regional Identity 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKent C. Ryden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Great Plains 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiane D. Quantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBev Hogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Old Southwest: Humor, Tall Tales, and the Grotesque 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRosemary D. Cox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Plantation School: Dissenters and Countermyths 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah E. Gardner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Fugitive-Agrarians and the Twentieth-Century Southern Canon 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarrell O’Gorman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Romanticizing a Different Lost Cause: Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Disheroon-Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Sagebrush School Revived 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawrence I. Berkove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Re-envisioning the Big Sky: Regional Identity, Spatial Logics, and the Literature of Montana 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Kollin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Regions of California: Mountains and Deserts 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicolas Witschi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Regions of California: The Great Central Valley 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles L. Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Los Angeles as a Literary Region 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Fine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 North and Northwest: Theorizing the Regional Literatures of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Kollin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Texas and the Great Southwest 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Busby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Hawai’i 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrenda Kwon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Some Regionalist Masters 477\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of the American West 479\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Scharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Mark Twain: A Man for All Regions 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawrence I. 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