The revolt from the village, 1915-1930

Anthony Channell Hilfer

earliest edition we have, 1969 University of North Carolina Press, 2012 286 pages

For years the myth of the "happy village" was perpetuated in song, verse, and prose in America, but in the 1880's and 1890's, a few writers began to see life differently. By 1915 a real "revolt from the village" was underway, and an organized literary attack on American provincialism and small-town mores preoccupied many of the well-known writers of the day--Willa Cather, Van Wyck Brooks, H. L. Mencken, Zona Gale, Ed...

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Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 edition · 2018 · University of North Carolina Press · 9780807836071
Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 edition · 2012 · University of North Carolina Press · 286 pages · 9780807836064
The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 edition · 1969 · The University of North Carolina Press · 9780807811023

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