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Author:

Parrish, Susan Scott, author.

Title:

The flood year 1927 : a cultural history / Susan Scott Parrish.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Floods--Mississippi River Valley--History--20th century.
Disaster relief--Mississippi River Valley--History--20th century.
Mississippi River Valley--Social conditions--20th century.
Mississippi River Valley--History--1865-
Mississippi River Valley--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-368) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Modern overflow -- Disaster's public. A northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- Modernism within a second nature. William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- Richard Wright : environment, media, and race -- Conclusion : Noah's kin.

ISBN:

0691168830
9780691168838

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946254933

LCCN:

2016009841

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)