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Literacy in the Mountains : Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia /

"Scholarship in Appalachian studies has long since illustrated that the representation of Appalachia as backward, isolated, and immobile place in the nineteenth century is inaccurate. Numerous historians have traced the origins of the "idea" of Appalachia in local-color writing and th...

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Autor principal: NeCamp, Samantha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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