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