The New England town in fact and fiction /
Westbrook, Perry D,
The New England town in fact and fiction / [print] Perry D. Westbrook. - Rutherford [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; (c)1982. London : Associated University Presses, (c)1982. - 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. "God has never forsaken that country" -- 2. Reports on the Promised Land : Dwight's Travels in New England and New York, and other commentators -- 3. Emerson and Thoreau and the town of Concord -- 4. Village fiction before 1850 -- 5. "A delightful village on a fruitful hill" : Lyman and Henry Ward Beecher and the New England town -- 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe : interpreter of New England life -- 7. Essays, sketches, humor -- 8. Structure and origins of town government -- 9. Recorders of social and economic decline in rural New England -- 10. At ease in Zion : Sarah Orne Jewett and Emily Dickinson -- 11. Old home week -- 12. Twentieth-century writing on New England towns to 1960 -- 13. Writers on New England towns since 1960.
9780838630112
80067077
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England.
Cities and towns--New England.
City and town life in literature.
PS243 PS243.W523.N494 1982
The New England town in fact and fiction / [print] Perry D. Westbrook. - Rutherford [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; (c)1982. London : Associated University Presses, (c)1982. - 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. "God has never forsaken that country" -- 2. Reports on the Promised Land : Dwight's Travels in New England and New York, and other commentators -- 3. Emerson and Thoreau and the town of Concord -- 4. Village fiction before 1850 -- 5. "A delightful village on a fruitful hill" : Lyman and Henry Ward Beecher and the New England town -- 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe : interpreter of New England life -- 7. Essays, sketches, humor -- 8. Structure and origins of town government -- 9. Recorders of social and economic decline in rural New England -- 10. At ease in Zion : Sarah Orne Jewett and Emily Dickinson -- 11. Old home week -- 12. Twentieth-century writing on New England towns to 1960 -- 13. Writers on New England towns since 1960.
9780838630112
80067077
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England.
Cities and towns--New England.
City and town life in literature.
PS243 PS243.W523.N494 1982