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Working the garden [[electronic resource] ] : American writers and the industrialization of agriculture



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Autore: Conlogue William Visualizza persona
Titolo: Working the garden [[electronic resource] ] : American writers and the industrialization of agriculture Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/321734
813.509355
Soggetto topico: American literature
Literature
American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - United States
Agriculture in literature - Economic aspects - History - 20th century
Agriculture - History and criticism
Pastoral literature, American
Industrialization in literature
Rural conditions in literature
Farm life in literature
Gardens in literature
American Literature
English
Languages & Literatures
Persona (resp. second.): KirbyJack Temple
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bonanza!; 2. Challenging the Agrarian Myth; 3. Disciplining the Farmer; 4. Racism and Industrial Farming; 5. From A Thousand Acres (1991) to "The Farm" (1998); Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 per cent of the US workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994 there were too few to warrant a separate census category. This study demonstrates the debates on the changes in family farming that occurred in literature.
Titolo autorizzato: Working the garden  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908737-0-5
0-8078-7505-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780185203321
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Serie: Studies in Rural Culture