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Degraded Heartland

Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature

Maria Farland

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9
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424
ISBN
9781421452425
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46 b&w illus.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. "The Little Barren State of Massachusetts": Dickinson, Plants, and Rural Progress
2. "All the Changes of City and Country": Agriculture and (Re)generative Antipastoral

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. "The Little Barren State of Massachusetts": Dickinson, Plants, and Rural Progress
2. "All the Changes of City and Country": Agriculture and (Re)generative Antipastoral in Walt Whitman
3. Thoreau Against the Grain: The Antipastoral in Walden
4. "Yankee Agrarian": Robert Frost, the Degenerate Farmer, and the Elevation of the Rural Mind
5. New Negro Agrarians: Antipastoral, Rural Uplift and the Harlem Renaissance
6. Prairie Migrants: Modernism, Agricultural "Fitness," and Immigrant Farm Fiction
Conclusion: Degeneration Now, Degeneration Forever
Acknowledgements
Notes

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Maria Farland

Maria Farland is an associate professor of English at Fordham University.