Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction M. Katherine Hudgins Using popular cinema from the

Using popular cinema from the United States

entered the industry around the same time at the wild and woolly Van Beuren studio in Manhattan

Sarah Neely

even into old age

sacred and profane) into union

Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction M. Katherine Hudgins Using popular cinema from theIn his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction, Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. Beebee analyzes