Title A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America / Janet Galligani Casey

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: women, modernity, rurality -- Critical cartographies: plotting farm women on the cultural map -- The farmer's wife and The farmer's wife -- Women, the farm, and the best-seller -- Radical ruralities -- Rural camera work: women and/in photography -- Epilogue: on heartlands and borderlands Summary This study investigates American rurality and modernity as mutually sustaining concepts, and centres on women's engagement with those concepts. The aim is to articulate a different mode of American modernism that signals meaning and appeal for women and to show how that mode responds to prevalent attitudes in the culture at large Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Pastoral fiction, American -- History and criticism Women in literature. Farm life in literature. Rural conditions in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Farm life in literature Literature and society Pastoral fiction, American Rural conditions in literature Women in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0195338952 9780195338959 9780199713349 0199713340 9780199867103 0199867100

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