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Article: Perry Westbrook. A Literary History of New England.(Book review)
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- December 22, 1990
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Perry Westbrook. A Literary History of New England. Bethlehem: Lehigh UP, 1988.
In 1951 Perry Westbrook published Acres of Flint, a study of rural New England writers in their cultural context. In that book Westbrook showed considerable immunity to the then pervasive devotion to the mainstays of the American Renaissance. In his most recent book, A Literary History of New England, Westbrook continues to be unafraid of giving serous attention to writers whose stars seemed to have set irrevocably during the years since the American canon was pruned to those works deemed capable of sustaining New Critical analysis. Westbrook's compact survey of New England literature ...