Small town / / Granville Hicks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828197203321
• Autore: Hicks Granville <1901-1982.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-8232-4847-X
• Edizione: [1st Fordham University Press ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xl, 272 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetti: City and town life; Intellectuals; Cities and towns - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Starting out from Roxborough -- The natural history of an intellectual -- What came with the house -- The rise and fall of a country town -- The influence of a ghost -- The mind of Roxborough -- Human nature, Roxborough style -- Institutions and people -- The future of the town -- The larger society -- The burden on the schools -- The duty of the intellectuals.
• Sommario/riassunto: Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views.