Reclaiming the American farmer : the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing
"In this stimulating study, [author] views the Southern Renaissance, 1900-1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, [author] argues, reframed southern history and culture. Instead of being rooted in the plantation culture that had provided inspiration for nineteenth-century southern writers, the new literature was inspired by "southern folk," the common people who farmed the earth and whose values derived from Jeffersonian agrarianism and democracy."--Book jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 191 pages ; 22 cm.
9780807131299, 0807131296
61130739
Veins of iron : Ellen Glasgow's Virginia farmers
The agrarians : taking their stand
The dawn of direct and unafraid creation : Jean Toomer and his Cane
Jesse Stuart : a farmer singing at the plow
Marriage and female labor : women's novels of the 1930s South
Reinventing Faulkner
Leave the rest behind : southern American migrants and the heroic plow
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