American writers and the industrialization of agriculture /
William Conlogue.
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2001.
230 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Studies in rural culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.
Bonanza!: Origins of the New Agriculture -- Challenging the Agrarian Myth: Women's Visibility in the New Agriculture -- Disciplining the Farmer: Class and Agriculture in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Human Kindness (1940) -- Racism and Industrial Farming: Actos (1965) and A Gathering of Old Men (1983) -- From A Thousand Acres (1991) to "The Farm" (1998) -- Postscript: Fixing Fence.
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Pastoral literature is examined in light of the agricultural and industrial changes in American economics during the turn of the century, as small family farms in the latter half of the nineteenth century evolved into larger agribusiness conglomerates.
Working the garden.
Agriculture-- Economic aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Agriculture in literature.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Farm life in literature.
Gardens in literature.
Industrialization in literature.
Pastoral literature, American-- History and criticism.