A new heartland
Casey, Janet Galligani.
A new heartland women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America / [electronic resource] : Janet Galligani Casey. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199867103 (ebook) : No price
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Pastoral fiction, American--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
PS223
810.90052
A new heartland women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America / [electronic resource] : Janet Galligani Casey. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199867103 (ebook) : No price
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Pastoral fiction, American--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
PS223
810.90052