Laura Ingalls Wilder's little town
where history and literature meet
by Miller, John E.
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As Laura Ingalls Wilder anticipated, her widely loved stories of her prairie childhood have become much more than a nostalgic blend of myth, memories, and autobiography. As John Miller reveals, they have much to tell us about the historical realities of day-to-day living and attitudes in the nineteenth century.
History and literature are closely intertwined, Miller contends. Here he illustrates how Wilder's novels enhance our understanding of history and how, simultaneously, a historical perspective framed Wilder's fiction. He shows how Wilder interwove content and form to produce a sentimental and compelling yet nuanced and believable picture of family life on the agricultural frontier.
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American Historical fiction, Books and reading, Children, Children's stories, American, City and town life in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, Historical fiction, American, History, History and criticism, Homes and haunts, In literature, Literature and history, Women and literature, Wilder, laura ingalls, 1867-1957, Historical fiction, history and criticism, Children's literature, history and criticismPlaces
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's little town: where history and literature meet
1994, University Press of Kansas
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in English
0700606548 9780700606542
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-202) and index.
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This book on Laura Ingalls Wilder and her popular series of children's novels springs from the premise that history and literature are closely intertwined and that each has much to contribute to the other. The reader of literature will understand it better and enjoy it more by placing it in historical context. In like manner, the student of history can learn much about past people, places, and actions by viewing them in the light of imaginative literature that dramatizes them and illuminates the contexts in which they occurred. - Introduction.
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