Rural fictions, urban realities : a geography of Gilded Age American literature
Storey, MarkAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
This study of late 19th-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This study of late 19th-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lines of time, sight and capital: train journeys -- Commerce and carnival at the canvas city: travelling circuses -- The place of medical knowledge: country doctors -- A government of men and not of laws: lynch mobs -- Geographies of the future: utopias.
American fiction
Rural conditions in literature
City and town life in literature
Farm life in literature
Pastoral fiction, American
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature