The Farm Novel in North America

Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-537-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 372 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freitag, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Französisch, Französische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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