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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have debated the best way to produce food and wealth for an expanding population with imperialistic tendencies. In a sweeping overview, Beyond the Fruited Plain traces the connections between nineteenth-century literature, agriculture, and U.S. territorial and economic expansion. Bringing together theories of globalization and ecocriticism, Kathryn Cornell Dolan offers new readings on the texts of such literary figures as Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Harriet Beecher Stowe as they examine conflicts of food, labor, class, race, gender, and time--issues still influencing U.S. food politics today. Beyond the Fruited Plain shows how these authors use their literature to imagine agricultural alternatives to national practices and in so doing prefigure twenty-first-century concerns about globalization, resource depletion, food security, and the relation of industrial agriculture to pollution, disease, and climate change."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Fruits of expansion -- Expanding agriculture -- Local beans, apples, and berries -- Fruits of regionalism -- Sweet empires of labor -- The wheat strikes back -- Epilogue: Fruits of globalization. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Agriculture in literature.
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Agriculture in literature. |
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Food in literature.
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Food in literature. |
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Literature and globalization.
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Literature and globalization. |
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Ecocriticism -- United States.
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Ecocriticism. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dolan, Kathryn Cornell. Beyond the fruited plain 9780803249882 (DLC) 2014013500 (OCoLC)877370403 |
| ISBN |
9780803269439 (electronic book) |
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0803269439 (electronic book) |
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9780803249882 |
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0803249888 |
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9780803269446 |
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0803269447 |
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9780803269453 (mobi) |
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