Old-fashioned modernism : rural masculinity and Midwestern literature /
"The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the "heartland," a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture. Alternatively, the Midwest can represent "flyove...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | "The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the "heartland," a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture. Alternatively, the Midwest can represent "flyover country," part of an expansive, undifferentiated mass between the coasts. In Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature, Andy Oler challenges both views by pairing fiction and poetry from the region with cultural and material texts that illustrate the processes by which regional modernism both opposes and absorbs prevailing models of twentieth-century manhood"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 234 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 080717078X 9780807170786 |