A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America

by Janet Galligani Casey

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Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems of modernity? And how have they imbued the rural-traditionally viewed as a locus for conservatism-with a progressive political valence?

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195338952

ISBN13:9780195338959

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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