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Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature
- Title
- Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature / Christopher Rieger.
- Author
- Rieger, Christopher.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- x, 202 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 > Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and society > Southern States > History > 20th century
- American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
- Pastoral fiction, American > History and criticism
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation
- Hurston, Zora Neale > Criticism and interpretation
- Nature in literature
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953 > Criticism and interpretation
- Human ecology in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Changes in the air and on the ground : nature, the Great Depression, and southern pastoral -- Depleted land, depleted lives : Erskine Caldwell's antipastoral -- Cross creek culture : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's wilderness pastoral -- Connecting inner and outer nature : Zora Neale Hurston's personal pastoral -- The postpastoral of William Faulkner's Go down, Moses -- Conclusion: Ecopastoral and the past, present, and future of Southern literature.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-2649
- ISBN
- 9780817316419 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817316418 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008024438
- OCLC
- 231834232
- Author
- Rieger, Christopher.
- Title
- Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature / Christopher Rieger.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-2649