A new heartland women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America Casey, Janet Galligani. creator text enk Oxford Oxford University Press c2009 2009 monographic eng
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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. specialized Janet Galligani Casey. 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 PS223 810.90052 9780199867103 (ebook) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.001.0001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.001.0001 StDuBDS 091022 20150804193942.0 EDZ0000073559