LEADER 03430nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910781134903321 005 20230725051653.0 010 $a1-58729-939-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019500 035 $a(EBL)843217 035 $a(OCoLC)671821765 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000398683 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11292874 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398683 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10363968 035 $a(PQKB)10545240 035 $a(OCoLC)671821765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843217 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399581 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019500 100 $a20100223d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fMatthew J.C. Cella; foreword by Wayne Franklin 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican land and life series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-907-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Bowl 327 $a5. 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; Index 330 $aAt the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land 410 0$aAmerican land and life series. 606 $aAmerican fiction$zGreat Plains$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 607 $aGreat Plains$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a813.009/3278 700 $aCella$b Matthew J. C.$f1974-$01464096 701 $aFranklin$b Wayne$01464097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781134903321 996 $aBad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction$93673658 997 $aUNINA