Status Rerum: A Reflection on Literary History and the Late Emergence of a Regional Northwestern Voice

• Main Author: Brown, Lauren Elizabeth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bard Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: Hobo; Northwest; Regionalism; Pacific; Finn; Snyder; Ahab; White whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2013/18; https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1391&context=senproj_s2013

In retrospect, I suppose I always knew my senior thesis would tackle my questions concerning regional identities, human difference, effects of displacement, and affinity for the natural world. If Ahab hadn’t jumped ship, I probably would’ve spent the eighty pages chasing Melville’s white whale; simi...