Regionalism and the Humanities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mahoney, Timothy R.; Katz, Wendy Jean

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Produktbeschreibung

Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of architecture, agriculture, and women, this volume implements some of the most innovative and intriguing approaches to the history and value of regionalism as a category for investigation in the humanities. In the volume's inaugural essay, Annie Proulx discusses landscapes in American fiction, comments on how she constructs characters, and interprets current literary trends. Edward Watts offers a theory of region that argues for comparisons of the United States to other former colonies of Great Britain, including New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Whether considering a writer's connection to region or the idea of place in exploring what is meant by regionalism, these essays uncover an enduring and evolving concept. Although the approaches and disciplines vary, all are framed within the fundamental premise of the humanities: the search to understand what it means to be human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803220461
• Artikelnr.: 55972542

Autorenporträt

Timothy R. Mahoney is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and project administrator of the Plains Humanities Alliance. He is the author of Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West and River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870.   Wendy J. Katz is an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati.   Contributors include Ginette Aley, Stephen C. Behrendt, Mark Busby, Cheryll Glotfelty, Barbara Handy-Marchello, Kurt E. Kinbacher, Patrick Lee Lucas, Larry W. Moore, Annie Proulx, Guy Reynolds, Mark A. Robison, Michael Saffle, William Slaymaker, Maggie Valentine, Edward Watts, and Nicolas S. Witschi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  
Introduction: Regionalism and the Humanities: Decline or Revival?
Wendy J. Katz and Timothy R. Mahoney
 
Part One. Sensing Place: The Authority of Nature
1. Dangerous Ground: Landscape in American Fiction   
Annie Proulx
2. The Ec(h)ological Conscience: Reflections on the Nature of Human
Presence in Great Plains Environmental Writing  
William Slaymaker
3. "I Don't Know, but I Ain't Lost": Defining the Southwest
Mark Busby
4. A Border Runs through It: Looking at Regionalism through Architecture in
the Southwest
Maggie Valentine
 
Part Two. Constructing Place: The Possibility of Local Representation
5. Willa Cather's Case: Region and Reputation  
Guy Reynolds
6. Dwelling within the Place Worth Seeking: The Midwest, Regional Identity,
and Internal Histories  
Ginette Aley
7. Gendered Boosterism: The "Doctor's Wife" Writes from the New
Northwest    
Barbara Handy-Marchello
8. "With Powder Smoke and Profanity": Genre Conventions, Regional Identity,
and the Palisade Gunfight Hoax    
Nicolas S. Witschi
 
Part Three. Place Is a Relationship: Regionalism, Nationalism, and
Transnationalism
9. Regionalism and the Realities of Naming     
Stephen C. Behrendt
10. The Midwest as a Colony: Transnational Regionalism     
Edward Watts
11. Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide: Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg Goes
to Chicago    
Mark A. Robison
12. Preaching the Gospel of Higher Vaudeville: Vachel Lindsay's Poetic
Journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and Back
Larry W. Moore
 
Part Four. Place is Political: Creating Regional Cultures
13. State Pieces in the U.S. Regions Puzzle: Nevada and the Problem of
Fit   
Cheryll Glotfelty
14. Imagining Place: Nebraska Territory, 18541867
Kurt E. Kinbacher
15. Architecture Crosses Region: Building in the Grecian Style   
Patrick Lee Lucas
16. Societies and Soirees: Musical Life and Regional Character in the South
Atlantic     
Michael Saffle
 
List of Contributors   
Index