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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Conforti, Joseph A. Imagining New England. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 (OCoLC)603751528 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph A Conforti |
| ISBN: | 0807826251 9780807826256 0807849375 9780807849378 |
| OCLC Number: | 45909198 |
| Description: | xiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The founding generation and the creation of a New England -- From the Americanization to the re-Anglicization of regional identity, 1660-1760 -- Regionalism and nationalism in the early republic: the American geographies of Jedidiah Morse -- Greater New England: Antebellum regional identity and the Yankee north -- Old New England: nostalgia, reaction, and reform in the colonial revival, 1870-1910 -- The north country and regional identity: from Robert Frost to the rise of Yankee magazine, 1914-1940. |
| Responsibility: | Joseph A. Conforti. |
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Abstract:
This 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.
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- New England -- Civilization.
- Regionalism -- New England -- History.
- New England -- Intellectual life.
- New England -- Historiography.
- Group identity -- New England -- History.
- New England -- In literature.
- Regionaal bewustzijn.
- Identiteit.
- Mythevorming.
- Stereotypen.
- Régionalisme -- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire.
- Identité collective -- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire.
- Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la littérature.
- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Civilisation.
- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle.
- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Historiographie.
- Kultur.
- Regionale Identität.
- Neuengland.

