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Taking the Town
Kolan Thomas Morelock
其他書名
Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917
出版University Press of Kentucky
ISBN08131351179780813135113
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=U9xOAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural "Athens of the West," it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. Taking the Town examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs prevale