Explores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century Historicizes and theorizes the role and function of the little arts community as a geo-social formation Comparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites New readings of major authors Jeffers, O'Neill, and Lawrence Interdisciplinary methodology based in primary source analysis Challenges a center-periphery model of modernist activity and literary-aesthetic production and instead emphasizes a network-based, collaborative model This book is...