Working the Garden
Subtitle: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780807849941
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Economic aspects; Agriculture in literature; United States; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; Essays; American - General; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; Agriculture - General; Sociology - Rural; 20th century; Agriculture; American literature; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Working his fields, a farmer comes to know them; a wet spot, rock ledge, or woodchuck hole is a familiar sight.
Description: Pastoral literature is examined in light of the agricultural and industrial changes in American economics during the turn of the century, as small family farms in the latter half of the nineteenth century evolved into larger agribusiness conglomerates.