Spoon River America

Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town

Spoon River America
Jason Stacy
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 240pg
11 May 2021 US
9780252085826
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From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters' s work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes-populist, elite, and exile-that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner' s poetry helped change a nation' s conception of itself.
Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman' s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman' s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780252085826
Published: 11 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 240

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