Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Contents
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.