03427nam 2200637Ia 450 991082203930332120240516112612.01-58729-939-9(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 /Matthew J.C. Cella; foreword by Wayne Franklin1st ed.Iowa 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.1974-1678954Franklin Wayne1620615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822039303321Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction4046911UNINA