01629nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000073559 StDuBDS 20150804193942.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 091022s2009 enka fo 001 0 eng d 9780199867103 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS223 810.90052 22 Casey, Janet Galligani. A new heartland [electronic resource] : women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America / Janet Galligani Casey. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. 1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill. 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version 9780195338959 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.001.0001 38137 38137