Florian Freitag

The Farm Novel in North America (eBook, PDF)

Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine.

From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese to Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, some of the most famous works of American, English Canadian, and French Canadian literature belongto the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to its apogee in French Canada around the middleof the twentieth. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a large number of farm novels written in French and English, Freitag examines how North American farm novels draw on the history of farming in nineteenth-centuryNorth America as well as on the national self-conceptions of the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, portraying farmers as national icons and the farm as a symbolic space of the American, English Canadian, and FrenchCanadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative look at a genre that helped to spatialize North American national dreams.

Florian Freitag is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571138774
• Artikelnr.: 56961890

Autorenporträt

Florian Freitag

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Surveying the Fields Early Sowings: St. John de Crèvecour's "History of Andrew
the Hebridean
" Patrice Lacombe's La terre paternelle
and Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush Laws of Nature: Frank Norris's The Octopus
Albert Laberge's La Scouine
and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the Marsh New World Demeters: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine
and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese Rich Harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury
the Meanest Man in Spring County
Claude-Henri Grignon's Un homme et son péché
and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the Earth Fields of Crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud
maître-draveur
and Robert Stead's Grain The Cycle of Seasons: Louis Bromfield's The Farm
Ringuet's Trente arpents
and Grace Campbell's The Higher Hill Epilogue Works Cited Index