The New England Town in Fact and FictionFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982 - 286 Seiten The author examines the institution and mystique of the New England town as it has impinged upon and molded the American imagination for two hundred years through the works of such writers as Thoreau, Dickinson, Cheever, and Updike. |
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Preface | 9 |
England and New York and Other Commentators | 26 |
Emerson and Thoreau and the Town of Concord | 44 |
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