A new heartland [electronic resource] : women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America /
by Casey, Janet Galligani.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009Description: 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199867103 (ebook) :.Subject(s): 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 centuryOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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