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Description
This book explores culture and intellectual life in Lexington, Kentucky, at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on local newspapers and on the work of historians and other writers, it reveals Lexington to be a city of contradictions: known as a cultural “Athens of the West,” it also struggled with the poverty, ignorance, and bigotry characteristic of southern communities after the Civil War. The book examines the contributions to local culture made by the literary and dramatic clubs prevalent on the city's college campuses. It gives an account of turn-of-the-century southern intellectual life thriving within an environment of considerable turmoil, violence, and change.
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
978-0-8131-2504-6
eISBN
978-0-8131-7305-4 (pdf version)
eISBN
978-0-8131-3883-1 (epub version)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813125046.001.0001
Keywords
Culture, Intellectual life, Lexington, Poverty, Ignorance, Bigotry, Local culture, College
Disciplines
Cultural History | Higher Education | United States History
Recommended Citation
Morelock, Kolan Thomas, "Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917" (2008). Higher Education. 18.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_higher_education/18
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