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A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America /

"This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality--urbanity's opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality--was a fruitful g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Casey, Janet Galligani
Autor Corporativo: Oxford University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality--urbanity's opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality--was a fruitful geographic and psychic location for registering women's perceptions of the modern. As its title implies, however, it is less about the empirical facts of farm life than about its abstractions--the idea of rurality, and the ways in which women were positioned, by themselves and others, in reference to it. Attending closely to language, images, and figurative connections, it demonstrates the theoretical importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of American modernity and modernism, and asserts that women had a special stake in that relation"--Abstract.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
ISBN:9780195338959
0195338952
9780199713349
0199713340
1282053779
9781282053779
9786612053771
6612053771