Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction
By: Matthew J.C. Cella ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
Contributors: Franklin, Wayne
Series: American land and life series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587299070
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:  Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction; title: 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness:  Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow"; title: 2. Pastoralism and enclosure:  Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass"; title: 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies:  Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels; title: 4. Patches of green and fields of dust:  Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl"; title: 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"; title: Epilogue:  Pastoral art and the beautiful.