Taking the town : collegiate and community culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 /
Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917 explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from local newspapers and from the work of historians and other writers, Kolan Thomas Morelock reveals Lexington...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Lexington, Ky. : Univ. Press of Kentucky, ©2008. |
| Series: | Thomas D. Clark studies in education, public policy, and social change.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : panning for gold
- Lexington in the Gilded Age : public voices
- "Put me in class with the widow who gave the mite" : Lexington's Joseph Tanner in the Gilded Age
- Campus prominence : collegiate literary societies in nineteenth-century Lexington
- Community presence : collegiate literary societies in Gilded Age Lexington
- "This city's never dull" : public culture in Progressive Era Lexington
- "In her most charming, characteristic way" : Lexington's Margaret Preston in the Progressive Era
- The dramatic clubs take the stage : an extracurricular succession in prewar Lexington
- Epilogue : Postwar Lexington : so long, Gilded Age
- Appendixes.