Rural fictions, urban realities : a geography of Gilded Age American literature

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Storey, Mark, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
• Rural conditions in literature--History and criticism.
• City and town life in literature.
• Farm life in literature.
• Pastoral fiction, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 200 p.)

Other Title:

Rural fictions, urban realities

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of late 19th-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.

Contents:

• Lines of time, sight and capital: train journeys
• Commerce and carnival at the canvas city: travelling circuses
• The place of medical knowledge: country doctors
• A government of men and not of laws: lynch mobs
• Geographies of the future: utopias.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199332793 (ebook) :