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Introduction: Regionalism and the Humanities: Decline or Revival?
Wendy J. Katz and Timothy R. Mahoney
Part One. Sensing Place: The Authority of Nature
1. Dangerous Ground: Landscape in American Fiction
Annie Proulx
2. The Ec(h)ological Conscience: Reflections on the Nature of Human Presence in Great Plains Environmental Writing
William Slaymaker
3. "I Don't Know, but I Ain't Lost": Defining the Southwest
Mark Busby
4. A Border Runs through It: Looking at Regionalism through Architecture in the Southwest
Maggie Valentine
Part Two. Constructing Place: The Possibility of Local Representation
5. Willa Cather's Case: Region and Reputation
Guy Reynolds
6. Dwelling within the Place Worth Seeking: The Midwest, Regional Identity, and Internal Histories
Ginette Aley
7. Gendered Boosterism: The "Doctor's Wife" Writes from the New Northwest
Barbara Handy-Marchello
8. "With Powder Smoke and Profanity": Genre Conventions, Regional Identity, and the Palisade Gunfight Hoax
Nicolas S. Witschi
Part Three. Place Is a Relationship: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism
9. Regionalism and the Realities of Naming
Stephen C. Behrendt
10. The Midwest as a Colony: Transnational Regionalism
Edward Watts
11. Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide: Willa Cather's Thea Kronborg Goes to Chicago
Mark A. Robison
12. Preaching the Gospel of Higher Vaudeville: Vachel Lindsay's Poetic Journey from Springfield, Illinois, across America, and Back
Larry W. Moore
Part Four. Place is Political: Creating Regional Cultures
13. State Pieces in the U.S. Regions Puzzle: Nevada and the Problem of Fit
Cheryll Glotfelty
14. Imagining Place: Nebraska Territory, 1854<EN>1867
Kurt E. Kinbacher
15. Architecture Crosses Region: Building in the Grecian Style
Patrick Lee Lucas
16. Societies and Soirees: Musical Life and Regional Character in the South Atlantic
Michael Saffle
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