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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Main Author:	Casey, Janet Galligani
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:	[CRKN ebooks]. [MyiLibrary]
Subjects:	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. American fiction. Literature and society. Pastoral fiction, American. Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Femmes dans la littérature. Vie à la ferme dans la littérature. Conditions rurales dans la littérature. Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. 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 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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by Casey, Janet Galligani
Published 2009

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