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The Pacific Northwest--for the purposes of this book mostly Oregon and Washington--has sometimes been seen as lacking significant cultural history. Home to idyllic environmental wonders, the region has been plagued by the notion that the best and brightest often left in search of greater things, that the mainstream world was thousands of miles away--or at least as far south as California.
This book describes the Pacific Northwest's search for a regional identity from the first Indian-European contacts through the late twentieth century, identifying those individuals and groups "who at least struggled to give meaning to the Northwest experience." It places particular emphasis on writers and other celebrated individuals in the arts, detailing how their lives and works both reflected the region and also enhanced its sense of self.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments (Barnett Singer)
Introduction
1. The Bitter Spiritual Harvest of Displacement
2. The Business and Moral Notables: Respectability, Refinement, Enlightenment
3. Literature of the Frontier
4. Populists, Progressives, and Radicals
5. The Northwest Achievement of V.L. Parrington
6. Literature and the Development of the Northwest Novel
7. Reflecting the Northwest: Historical and Other Non-Fiction Writing
8. Distinguished Achievement: Northwest Poetry Since World War II
9. Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
