The midwestern pastoral : place and landscape in literature of the American heartland
The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest. Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midweste
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages)
9780821442012, 0821442015
182530454
1. Midwestern pastoralism
2. Willa Cather
3. Aldo Leopold
4. Theodore Roethke
5. James Wright
6. Jim Harrison
7. Further views
English