A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America /
"This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality--urbanity's opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality--was a fruitful g...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | [CRKN ebooks].
[MyiLibrary] |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality--urbanity's opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality--was a fruitful geographic and psychic location for registering women's perceptions of the modern. As its title implies, however, it is less about the empirical facts of farm life than about its abstractions--the idea of rurality, and the ways in which women were positioned, by themselves and others, in reference to it. Attending closely to language, images, and figurative connections, it demonstrates the theoretical importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of American modernity and modernism, and asserts that women had a special stake in that relation"--Abstract. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195338959 0195338952 9780199713349 0199713340 1282053779 9781282053779 9786612053771 6612053771 9780199867103 0199867100 |