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  title info:
    title: From warm center to ragged edge
    sub title: the erosion of Midwestern literary and historical regionalism, 1920-1965
  name:
    name part: Lauck, Jon
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: iau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post-World War II era. In the apt language of Minnesota's F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Midwest slid from being the "warm center" of the republic to its "ragged edge." This book explains the factors that triggered the demise of the Midwest's regionalist energies, from anti-midwestern machinations in the literary world and the inability of midwestern writers to break through the cultural politics of the era to the growing dominance of a coastal, urban culture. These developments paved the way for the proliferation of images of the Midwest as flyover country, the Rust Belt, a staid and decaying region. Yet Lauck urges readers to recognize persisting and evolving forms of midwestern identity and to resist the forces that squelch the nation's interior voices.
  note: Jon K. Lauck.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usc--
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    geographic: Middle West
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and history
    geographic: Middle West
  subject:
    geographic: Middle West
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    geographic: Middle West
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: State & Local
    topic: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
  classification: PS273 .L38 2017
  classification: 810.9/977
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Iowa and the Midwest experience
  identifier: 9781609384968
  identifier: 1609384962
  identifier: 9781609384975
  identifier: 2016040307
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170104
    record change date: 20170926120159.0
    record identifier: in00003870213