The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture

by James R. Shortridge

Book Overview

It is the "heartland," the home of the average--middle--American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural, political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered, hardworking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700604758
• ISBN13: 9780700604753
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"