Michigan in Literature

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Call Number: 977.4 An
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Michigan in literature -- 2: Indians, French, and British -- 3: Settlers come to Michigan -- 4: Diversity in the Peninsula State -- 5: Timber-r-r-r! -- 6: Paul Bunyan, mighty logger-in Michigan -- 7: Great turtle -- 8: Great Lakes in Michigan literature -- 9: Michigan farm novel -- 10: Michigan small town -- 11: Michigan campus scene -- 12: Banks, business, and mining -- 13: Crime in Michigan literature -- 14: People in Michigan literature -- 15: Detroit in literature: the French city and the motor city -- 16: Michigan poetry of place -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
From the Publisher: Michigan in Literature is a guide to more than one thousand literary and dramatic works set in Michigan from its pre-territorial days to the present. Imaginative, narrative, dramatic, and lyrical creations that have Michigan settings, characters, subjects, and themes are organized into sixteen chapters on topics such as Indians in Michigan, settlers who came to Michigan, diversity in the state, the timber industry, the Great Lakes, crime in Michigan literature, Detroit, and Michigan poetry. In this most complete work to date, Clarence Andrews has assembled the literary reputation of a state. He illustrates, with a wide variety of literary works, that Michigan is more than just a builder of automobiles, a producer of apples and cherries, a supplier of copper and lumber, and the home of great athletes. It is also a state that has played-and continues to play-an important role in the production of American literature. To qualify for inclusion, a work or a significant part of it has to be set in Michigan. Andrews shows how novelists, dramatists, poets, and short story writers have created their particular images of Michigan by using and interpreting the history of the state-its land and waters, people, events, ideas, philosophies, and policies-sometimes factually, sometimes modified or distorted, and sometimes fancied or imagined. Biographical information is featured about authors, editors, and compilers, who range in fame from Ernest Hemingway and Elmore Leonard to persons long forgotten. The published opinions and judgments of reputable critics and scholars are also presented.

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