Hidden Places - Maine Writers on Coastal Villages, Mill Towns, and the North Country

Across decades, Maine has produced nationally-recognized novelists of place-based fiction. From the late nineteenth century to the present, writers have explored the experiences of living in far-flung settings: island and coastal villages; northwoods lumbering communities; unincorporated townships; backcountry hamlets; and mill cities and towns. Taken together their body of work composes a remarkable literary map of a diverse and changing Maine. Hidden Places explores the identity of Maine through its writers and the people and places they captured at moments in time.

About the author

Joseph A. Conforti, a graduate of Brown University, is presently Professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of History and English at Rhode Island College. Conforti has published several articles on the New Divinity Movement and is the author of five books on New England.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conforti, Joseph A. Conforti
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781608937288
• ISBN: 978-1-60893-728-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / Places