American small-town fiction, 1940-1960 : a critical study /

"In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Booth, Nathanael T., 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Subjects:	1900-1999 American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature. City and town life in literature. American fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Columbus on the platform: the train station
"The crisis of individuation": the schoolhouse
The small-town bildungsroman: the malt shop
No town is an island: Main Street and the town square
False transcendence: the movie theater
Good god, bad god: the church
Fortunate fall: the courthouse
Transcending division: the outskirts
In this garden of death: the graveyard.