TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westbrook,Perry D
TI  - The New England town in fact and fiction
SN  - 9780838630112
AV  - PS243 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Rutherford [New Jersey]
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - New England
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - City and town life in literature
N1  - 1; 4; 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; 2; Also issued online
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