Reclaiming the American farmer
Subtitle: the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing
By: Mary Weaks-Baxter.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Pastoral fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Regionalism in literature.; Farm life in literature.; Farmers in literature.; Myth in literature.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Veins of iron : Ellen Glasgow's Virginia farmers; title: The agrarians : taking their stand; title: The dawn of direct and unafraid creation : Jean Toomer and his Cane; title: Jesse Stuart : a farmer singing at the plow; title: Marriage and female labor : women's novels of the 1930s South; title: Reinventing Faulkner; title: Leave the rest behind : southern American migrants and the heroic plow.