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Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture by James R. Shortridge (Paperback, 1989)

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It is the heartland, the home of the average--middle--American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural, political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered, hardworking and complacent. From Willa Cather to Sherwood Anderson, from The Wizard of Oz to The Music Man, images of the Middle West are powerful and contradictory. In this thoughtful book, cultural geographer James R. Shortridge offers a historical probe into the idea of the Middle West. By exploring what this term originally meant and how it has changed over the past 150 years, he presents a fascinating look at the question of regional identity and its place in the collective consciousness. A work of unconventional geography based on extensive research in popular literature, this volume examines meaning, essence, character--the important intangibles of place not captured by statistical studies--and explores the intimate connections between the notion of pastoralism and the definition of the Middle West.

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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-13
9780700604753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95222446

Product Key Features

Author
James R. Shortridge
Publication Name
Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
202 Pages

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Title_Author
James R. Shortridge
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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