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BL
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1000294
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b754664
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Palmer, Stephanie C.
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| Title & Author
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Together by accident : : American local color literature and the middle class /\ Stephanie C. Palmer.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, MD :: Lexington Books,, ©2009.
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viii, 225 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0739124943
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: 0739132121
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: 9780739124949
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: 9780739132128
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index.
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| Contents
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Can the genteel writer write the local novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke -- Travel delays in the commercial countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett -- Travel delays and provincial ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter -- Realist magic in the country and the city: William Dean Howells -- Angry reform from elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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| Abstract
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"This account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work clone by authors writing during the Gilded Age. Stephanie C. Palmer shows how events like broken carriage wheels and missed trains were used by local color authors to bring together bourgeois and lower-class characters, thus giving readers the opportunity to see modernity coming into contact with both rural and urban life." "Using the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, Palmer traces the use of the regional-travel-accident motif and how local color writers employed it to give critiques on class, society, and modern life. Exploring the themes of regional identity, modernity, and interpersonal relationships, Together by Accident offers an intriguing evaluation of the innovations and inconveniences associated with life during the industrializing Gilded Age in America."--Jacket.
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Accidents in literature.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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City and town life in literature.
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Local color in literature.
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Middle class in literature.
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Travel in literature.
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Accidents in literature.
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American literature.
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City and town life in literature.
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Literatur
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Local color in literature.
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Middle class in literature.
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Mittelstand
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Travel in literature.
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Unterschicht
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USA
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/355
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| LC Classification
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PS217.A25P35 2009
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