A new heartland [electronic resource] : women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America / Janet Galligani Casey. Casey, Janet Galligani. 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. PS223 810.90052 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. 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. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. c2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.001.0001 eng United States