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050 00 $aPS261$b.R45 2009
082 00 $a810.9/35875$222
100 1 $aRieger, Christopher.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008037939
245 10 $aClear-cutting Eden :$becology and the pastoral in Southern literature /$cChristopher Rieger.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $ax, 202 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tChanges in the air and on the ground : nature, the Great Depression, and the Southern pastoral -- $g1.$tDepleted land, depleted lives : Erskine Caldwell's antipastoral -- $g2.$tCross creek culture : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's wilderness pastoral -- $g3.$tConnecting inner and outer nature : Zora Neale Hurston's personal pastoral -- $g4.$tThe postpastoral of William Faulkner's Go down, Moses -- $gConclusion.$tEcopastoral and the past, present, and future of Southern literature.
520 1 $a"Clear-Cutting Eden examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s." "Christopher Rieger studies the ways that nature is conceived of and portrayed by four prominent Southern writers of the era: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner. Specifically, he argues that these writers created new versions of an old literary mode - the pastoral - in response to the destabilizing effects of the Great Depression, the rise of Southern modernism, and the mechanization of agricultural jobs." "Mass deforestation, soil erosion, urban development, and depleted soil fertility are issues that come to the fore in the works of these writers. In response, each author depicts a network model of nature, where humans are part of the natural world, rather than separate, over, or above it, as in the garden pastorals of the Old South, thus significantly revising the pastoral mode proffered by antebellum and Reconstruction-era writers." "Each writer, Rieger finds, infuses the pastoral mode with continuing relevance, creating new versions that fit his or her ideological positions on issues of race, class, and gender. Despite the ways these authors represent nature and humankind's place in it, they all illustrate the idea that the natural environment is more than just a passive background against which the substance of life, or fiction, is played out."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101034
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129926
650 0 $aHuman ecology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062862
650 0 $aNature in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090286
650 0 $aPastoral fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aCaldwell, Erskine,$d1903-1987$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aRawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,$d1896-1953$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHurston, Zora Neale$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aFaulkner, William,$d1897-1962$xCriticism and interpretation.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS261$i.R45 2009