| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
CellaMatthew J. C., 1974- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
FranklinWayne, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Iowa City |
| Published: |
University of Iowa Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xiii, 230 p.). |
| Series: |
American land and life series |
| Subject: |
Place (Philosophy) in literature - |
| Subject: |
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
American fiction - History and criticism - Great Plains - |
| Subject: |
Great Plains - In literature - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781587299391/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9781587299391electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1587299399electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781587299070pbk. |
| ISBN: |
1587299070pbk. |
| ISBN: |
9781587299056hbk. |
| ISBN: |
1587299054hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction -- 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness: Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow" -- 2. Pastoralism and enclosure: Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass" -- 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies: Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels -- 4. Patches of green and fields of dust: DustBowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl" -- 5. Healing the wounds ofhistory: Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water"-- Epilogue: Pastoral art and the beautiful |