Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction /
Cella, Matthew J. C.,1974-
Franklin, Wayne.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction:  Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction -- 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness:  Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow" -- 2. Pastoralism and enclosure:  Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass" -- 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies:  Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels -- 4. Patches of green and fields of dust:  Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl" -- 5. Healing the wounds of history:  Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water" -- Epilogue:  Pastoral art and the beautiful.
American fiction
Pastoral literature, American
Place (Philosophy) in literature.