The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing (Midwestern History & Culture Series) - Tapa dura

.".".a welcome and instructive volume... warrants an overall rating of "very highly recommended."" J. Clark Archer, Indiana Magazine of HIstory, Sept. 2008"

"Weber's comprehensive account of the ascendancy of midwestern literature will be a needed addition to collections of scholarship in American literature." - Marcia Noe. "Weber's prose is lucid, cogent, engaging. And his insights into the problems of regionalism, the creations of the midwestern movement, and the places and people of the midwestern tapestry bring a new coherence to this neglected literature." - Joseph F. Trimmer. For a half-century - from Edward Eggleston's "The Hoosier Schoolmaster" in 1871 through the work of Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s - Midwestern literature was at the center of American writing. In "The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing", Ronald Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feeling about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate. The period of Midwestern cultural ascendancy was a time of tremendous social and technological change. Midwestern writing was a reflection of these societal changes; it was American literature.