This Day and Time - Couverture souple

Armstrong, Anne W.

 
9781621909835: This Day and Time
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1621909832 ISBN 13 : 9781621909835
Editeur : University of Tennessee Press, 2025

Synopsis

Considered by many scholars to be the first novel to realistically depict the Appalachian region and its people, Anne Armstrong's This Day and Time (1930) follows a resilient young woman named Ivy, deserted by her husband and raising a young son in the mountains after having tried working factory jobs in town. With lyrical descriptions of the landscape and careful, if archaic, use of dialect, Armstrong explores both timeless and contemporaneous themes, including the impact of industrialization, the deep connection between mountaineers and their land, the roles and victimization of women, and the cycle of life through the changing seasons. Agrarian critic Donald Davidson called it "as true a novel of the mountains as has been written."

For this new edition of Armstrong's work, editor Linda Behrend has written a critical introduction that discusses these literary themes and other components of the text,including biographical information, an analysis of Armstrong's style and technique, and connections to other literary works of the time. An extensive bibliography includes archival and primary sources, book reviews from This Day and Time's original appearance in 1930, reviews of stage adaptations of the book, and sources that shed light on its unique linguistic style. Almost a century after This Day and Time was first published, this edition offers both an engaging narrative and an insightful study for a new generation of readers.

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À propos de l?auteur

LINDA BEHREND, now retired, was collection development librarian with the University of Tennessee Libraries. She is the editor of Armstrong's memoir Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography, and her articles have appeared in Against the Grain, the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, and the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

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Éditeur
University of Tennessee Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1621909832
ISBN 13 
9781621909835
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Éditeur
Behrend Linda
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