Great Plains Literature

Linda Ray Pratt is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the former executive vice president and provost of the University of Nebraska system. She is the author of¿Matthew Arnold Revisited.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Under Spacious Skies
2. Fencing In the First People
3. Taking the Land in Rölvaag’s Immigrant Saga
4. Cather and the End of the “West”
5. Dissent and the Great Depression
6. City Living on the Edge
7. The Circle toward Home
Appendix: Great Plains Literary Sites to Visit
Further Reading
Index

About the author

Linda Ray Pratt is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the former executive vice president and provost of the University of Nebraska system. She is the author of Matthew Arnold Revisited.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Ray Pratt
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780803290709
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9070-9
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Discover the Great Plains; Discover the Great Plains
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous