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Jason Arthur, Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction since the Great Depresssion (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013, $39.95). Pp. 184. isbn978 1 6093 8147 9.

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Jason Arthur, Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction since the Great Depresssion (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013, $39.95). Pp. 184. isbn978 1 6093 8147 9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2016

FLORIAN FREITAG
FLORIAN FREITAG*
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 270 - 272
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References

1 See, for instance, the two-volume, multidisciplinary Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, ed. Lothar Hönnighausen (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005); or the recent special issue of the European Journal of American Studies, 9, 3 (2014)Google Scholar, entitled Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism, ed. Florian Freitag and Kirsten Sandrock.

2 See the reviews by Jackson, Robert for Twentieth-Century Literature, 59, 4 (2013)Google Scholar; and Dufaure, Sarah for Transatlantica, 2 (2014), respectivelyGoogle Scholar.

3 See Lutz's Cosmopolitan Vistas; Dowdell's “Withdrawing from the Nation: Regionalist Literature as Ascetic Practice in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs,” Legacy, 21, 2 (2004), 210–28CrossRefGoogle Scholar; June Howard's “American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits,” in Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson, eds., A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914 (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005) 119–39; and Satterwhite's, Emily “Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception,” American Literature, 78, 1 (2006), 59–88CrossRefGoogle Scholar.