ISBN: 9780807875063

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region… Mehr…

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century The University of North Carolina Press North American History New England history; New England geography; Regionalism; Regional Studies; American studies; Interdisciplinary studies; New England towns; Regional identity; American identity; Puritans; Pilgrims; Cotton Matler; Yankee; Yankee Magazine; John Smith; Jedidiah Morse; Timothy Dwight; John Warner Barber; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Lydia Maria Child; Alice Morse Earle; Colonial Revival; Robert Frost; House of the Seven Gables; 9780807826256, 9780807849378 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English History, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807875063

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region… Mehr…

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > General & world history, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807875063

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region… Mehr…

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > General & world history, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807875063

The University of North Carolina Press North American History New England history; New England geography; Regionalism; Regional Studies; American studies; Interdisciplinary studies; New … Mehr…

The University of North Carolina Press North American History New England history; New England geography; Regionalism; Regional Studies; American studies; Interdisciplinary studies; New England towns; Regional identity; American identity; Puritans; Pilgrims; Cotton Matler; Yankee; Yankee Magazine; John Smith; Jedidiah Morse; Timothy Dwight; John Warner Barber; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Lydia Maria Child; Alice Morse Earle; Colonial Revival; Robert Frost; House of the Seven Gables; 9780807826256, UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20030114 English History, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807875063

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region… Mehr…

Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region-the idyllic white village. Such images remind us Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region-the idyllic white village. Such images remind us, The University of North Carolina Press<