 | The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma Subjects: Chadds Ford (Pa.) -- Social life and customs; Suburban life -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford; Suburban life -- United States -- Case studies; Postmodernism -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford; Postmodernism -- United States -- Case studies; Tourist trade -- Penn; "A subversive and postmodern work about the town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The book considers Wyeth country--what kind of place it is and how it is constituted. . . . Dorst asks questions about how the place represents itself to itself and to tourists."-- Lingua Franca John D. Dorst is Professor of American Studies at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Looking West, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
