Westbrook, Perry D, <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780838630112 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>80067077 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.--New England<br/>Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England.<br/>Cities and towns--New England.<br/>City and town life in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS243 PS243.W523.N494 1982