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Author Weaks-Baxter, Mary.

Title Reclaiming the American farmer : the reinvention of a regional mythology in twentieth-century southern writing / Mary Weaks-Baxter.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  PS261 .W43 2006    Available  ---
Description xi, 191 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies.
Bibliography 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.
Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Southern States.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Pastoral fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Pastoral fiction, American.
Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1865-
Subject Southern States -- In literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Farmers in literature.
Farmers in literature.
Myth in literature.
Myth in literature.
ISBN 0807131296 alkaline paper
9780807131299 alkaline paper