Title: Pastoral, pragmatism, and twentieth-century American poetry
Description: "In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century."--
Subjects: Pragmatism in literature, American Pastoral poetry, American poetry, History and criticism, American poetry, history and criticism, Poetics
Time periods: 20th century