For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer&emdash;-a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace.
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work portrays...
For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention&emdash;-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected...
Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder about their origin. When kids asked "Where do I come from?" in the 1950s, they were really asking about sex, the biggest mystery for those growing up in an age of American innocence. Cold War children also wanted to know more about their parents and the community which surrounded them. Central characters in this novel, Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell, find out about the past in the structures of the Missouri small town they live in, which is located...
Route 66 Kids, the second in Michael Lund's Route 66 novel series, is a Babyboomers' coming-of-age story, reminding us that children always wonder abo...
Fairfield, Missouri native Hugh Noone knew he had been born on the wrong side of the tracks, and society's reaction to his left-handedness convinced him that he would never enjoy the promise represented by Route 66 or new freedoms of the Sexual Revolution. In fact, he writes his life story from jail, appealing a wrongful conviction and imprisonment twenty years after the event. But revealing the details of his past and effecting a resolution of his case lead to a surprising rearrangement of his views. About Michael Lund's earlier Route 66 novels: "extremely heartwarming and nostalgic look at...
Fairfield, Missouri native Hugh Noone knew he had been born on the wrong side of the tracks, and society's reaction to his left-handedness convinced h...
In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contest. Now married and with teenage children in St. Louis, she recounts her youthful adventure in this small town along "America's Highway." At the same time, she plans a return to Fairfield in order to right injustices she feels were done to some young contestants in the Miss Route 66 Pageant. Throughout this journey she wonders what, if anything, was feminine in the "Mother Road" of the 1950s.
In the fourth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel Series, Susan Bell tells the story of her candidacy in Fairfield, Missouri's annual beauty contes...
In the fifth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel series, the lives of four young Missourians are changed when a bottle comes to the surface of one of the state's many natural springs. Inside is a letter written by a girl a dozen years after the end of the Civil War. Lucy Rivers Johns' epistle contains a sad story of family failure and a powerful plea for help. This message from the last century crystallizes the individual frustrations of Janet Masters, Freddy Sills, Louis Clark, and Roberta Green, a group of kids growing up near Route 66 around 1960. Their response to the past charts a...
In the fifth novel of Michael Lund's Route 66 Novel series, the lives of four young Missourians are changed when a bottle comes to the surface of one ...
When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young couple band together in an unlikely campaign to save it. The embattled meeting point of old and new is Route 66 Chapel, a building curiously linked to America's "Mother Road."
When the forces of progress threaten the foundation of small town life-a small church-five senior citizens, a mysterious newcomer, and one young coupl...
In Route 66 Choir Stanley Measure takes early retirement just before September 11, 2001, and his impulsive decisions participate in an unraveling of confidence in the American way of life. His wife Felicia finds that everything she holds dear is in danger of coming apart: her marriage, her church, her business, and even her country. Who or what can orchestrate the recovery of harmony necessary to sustain the spirit of the Mother Road?
In Route 66 Choir Stanley Measure takes early retirement just before September 11, 2001, and his impulsive decisions participate in an unraveling of c...
Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the children growing up there as the "Circle." That time and place are remembered by the novel's narrator as ideal, but closer scrutiny repeatedly--and often humorously--complicates this innocent picture. In growing up we continually confront things that do not make sense. Then, in sudden moments of inspiration the pieces come together. For those growing up in the 1950s, the biggest mystery of childhood was sex. And central characters in this story,...
Growing Up on Route 66 is set in a Missouri small town along "America's Main Street." Most of the action takes place in a neighborhood known to the ch...
Route 66 Sweetheart tells the story of a young woman growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1930s. Marion (Mid) Lacy, who traces her ancestry back to the early New World Settlement of Nantucket, worries that she is overshadowed by more brilliant siblings and friends. In an era restricted by economic hard times and haunted by the prospect of approaching world war, she learns that all are counted in the creation of history, even the "sweetheart" of a distant admirer who travels "the Mother Road."
Route 66 Sweetheart tells the story of a young woman growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 1930s. Marion (Mid) Lacy, who traces her ancestry ba...
This novel takes characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway, Route 66. Mark Landon and Billy Rhodes find the values they grew up on challenged by America's role in Southeast Asia. But elements of their upbringing represented by the Mother Road also sustain them in ways they could never have anticipated.
This novel takes characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway,...
