03430nam 2200625Ia 450 991078113490332120230725051653.01-58729-939-9(CKB)2550000000019500(EBL)843217(OCoLC)671821765(SSID)ssj0000398683(PQKBManifestationID)11292874(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398683(PQKBWorkID)10363968(PQKB)10545240(OCoLC)671821765(MiAaPQ)EBC843217(Au-PeEL)EBL843217(CaPaEBR)ebr10399581(EXLCZ)99255000000001950020100223d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction[electronic resource] /Matthew J.C. Cella; foreword by Wayne FranklinIowa City University of Iowa Press20101 online resource (252 p.)American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-907-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword by Wayne Franklin; Acknowledgments; 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 Bowl5. Healing the Wounds of History: Buffalo Commons Pastoralism in Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole and King's Truth and Bright WaterEpilogue: Pastoral Art and the Beautiful; Notes; Bibliography; IndexAt the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of landAmerican land and life series.American fictionGreat PlainsHistory and criticismPastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticismPlace (Philosophy) in literatureGreat PlainsIn literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Pastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Place (Philosophy) in literature.813.009/3278Cella Matthew J. C.1974-1464096Franklin Wayne1464097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781134903321Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction3673658UNINA