Literacy in the mountains [electronic resource] : community, newspapers, and writing in Appalachia / Samantha NeCamp.

"Scholarship in Appalachian studies has long since illustrated that the representation of Appalachia as backward, isolated, and immobile place in the nineteenth century is inaccurate. Numerous historians have traced the origins of the "idea" of Appalachia in local-color writing and the home missiona...

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