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Author:

Rieger, Christopher

Title:

Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature / Christopher Rieger.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 202 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Southern States--History--20th century.
Human ecology in literature
Nature in literature
Pastoral fiction, American--History and criticism.
Caldwell, Erskine,--1903-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,--1896-1953--Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Changes in the air and on the ground : nature, the Great Depression, and southern pastoral -- Depleted land, depleted lives : Erskine Caldwell's antipastoral -- Cross creek culture : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's wilderness pastoral -- Connecting inner and outer nature : Zora Neale Hurston's personal pastoral -- The postpastoral of William Faulkner's Go down, Moses -- Conclusion: Ecopastoral and the past, present, and future of Southern literature.

ISBN:

0817381244 (electronic)
9780817381240 (electronic)
0817316418 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817316419 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)231834232

LCCN:

2008024438

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)