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- ↑ Halttunen, Karen (2004). Conforti, Joseph A.; Heath, Kingston Wm.; O'Gorman, James F.; Doezema, Marianne; Paton, Priscilla; Homer; Frost; Wyeth; Bishop (eds.). "The Rust of Time, the Patina of Place: Recent Studies in New England Regionalism". The New England Quarterly. 77 (1): 122–135. ISSN 0028-4866.
- ↑ Halttunen, Karen (2002). "Self, Subject, and the "Barefoot Historian"". The Journal of American History. 89 (1): 20–24. doi:10.2307/2700778. ISSN 0021-8723.
- ↑ "Through time and geography, 11 great Maine writers illuminate the state". Press Herald. 2021-04-18.
In terms of terrain, topography and people of all classes, races and genders over time, "Hidden Places," covers the bases, but Portland - urban Maine - is not represented; Conforti makes his case for that choice. Indeed, in the hand of some writers, such as Carolyn Chute, Portland is exploited as the "anti-Maine." The big city has yet to produce a master novelist, I'd agree, and that leaves a large literary gap
- ↑ "Joseph A. Conforti. Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Christian University Press. 1981. Pp. viii, 241. $16.95". The American Historical Review. June 1982. doi:10.1086/ahr/87.3.846. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ↑ Béranger, Jean (1996). "Joseph A. Conforti. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture". Revue Française d'Études Américaines. 69 (1): 119–120.
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