Research Catalog

Title

The Small town in America : a multidisiplinary revisit / edited by Hans Bertens, Theo D'haen ; with contributions from Hans Bak ... [et. al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bertens, Johannes Willem
• Haen, Theo d'
• Bak, Hans

Description

246 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 32

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies 32.

Subject

• Villages > United States
• City and town life > United States
• City and town life in literature
• Cities and towns > United States
• Cities and towns in literature
• Cities and towns in motion pictures
• City and town life in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The small town : between modernity and post-modernity / Rob Kroes -- Social science looks at the American small town / Dwight W. Hoover -- Robert Lynd's disenchantment : a study of Robert Lynd's cultural criticism / F.L. van Holthoon -- The American belief in education with special reference to Middletown : scene of the rise and expansion of higher education / Jan C.C. Rupp -- The distribution and diffusion of power in Middletown : then and now / Bruce Geelhoed -- From Main Street to Lake Wobegon and half-way back : the Mid-West small town as a literary place in 20th century U.S. literature / Walter Hölbling -- From the hamlet to the mansion : the voice of the town in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy / Gene M. Moore -- Home is where the heart is : small town experiences in the fiction of Thomas Wolfe and Hamilton Basso / Inez Hollander Lake -- Our Town revisited : the small town in contemporary American drama / Hans Bak -- Sherwood Anderson's "Middletown" : a sociology of the Midwestern stories / William V. Miller -- Model Merion : attempts to create a community in a small wealthy Philadelphia suburb / Hans Krabbendam -- And a Main Street to walk down : the small town in the Hollywood Western / Anneke Leenhouts -- Capra's small town / Nico J. Brederoo -- Community festivals and the politics of memory : postmodernity in the American heartland / Esther Romeyn and Jack Kugelmass -- John Mellencamp's populist rock : folkish small-town narratives and collective nostalgia in the Midwest / Mel van Elteren.

ISBN

9053833854 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 33891065
• SCSB-12300037

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library