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Working the garden : American writers and the industrialization of agriculture
- Title
- Working the garden : American writers and the industrialization of agriculture / by William Conlogue.
- Author
- Conlogue, William.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS228.A52 C66 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 230 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in rural culture
- Uniform Title
- Studies in rural culture.
- Subjects
- Farm life in literature
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Agriculture in literature
- Gardens in literature
- Rural conditions in literature
- Pastoral literature, American > History and criticism
- Industrialization in literature
- Agriculture > Economic aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes biliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Bonanza!: Origins of the New Agriculture -- Ch. 2. Challenging the Agrarian Myth: Women's Visibility in the New Agriculture -- Ch. 3. Discipling the Farmer: Class and Agriculture in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Human Kindness (1940) -- Ch. 4. Race and IndustriaI Farming: Actos (1965) and A Gathering of Old Men (1983) -- Ch. 5. From A Thousand Acres (1991) to "The Farm" (1998) -- Postscript: Fixing Fence.
- ISBN
- 0807826685 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807849944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001027914
- OCLC
- 47018437
- ocm47018437
- SCSB-4248538
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries