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Reclaiming the American farmer : the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing
- Title
- Reclaiming the American farmer : the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing / Mary Weaks-Baxter.
- Author
- Weaks-Baxter, Mary.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 191 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Subject
- American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Pastoral fiction, American > History and criticism
- Regionalism in literature
- Farm life in literature
- Farmers in literature
- Myth in literature
- Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
- Southern States > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
- Contents
- Veins of iron : Ellen Glasgow's Virginia farmers -- The agrarians : taking their stand -- The dawn of direct and unafraid creation : Jean Toomer and his Cane -- Jesse Stuart : a farmer singing at the plow -- Marriage and female labor : women's novels of the 1930s South -- Reinventing Faulkner -- Leave the rest behind : southern American migrants and the heroic plow.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-4764
- ISBN
- 0807131296 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005020318
- OCLC
- 61130739
- Author
- Weaks-Baxter, Mary.
- Title
- Reclaiming the American farmer : the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing / Mary Weaks-Baxter.
- Imprint
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
- Series
- Southern literary studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-4764