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Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Matthew J. Cella; Foreword by Wayne Franklin


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  • Title Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction
  • Author Matthew J. Cella; Foreword by Wayne Franklin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Iowa Press
  • Date 2010-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781587299070 / 1587299070
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Place (Philosophy) in literature, Pastoral literature, American - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010005241
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.009

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2011, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2010, Page 300

About the author

Matthew Cella is a visiting assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He has been both managing editor and book review editor for "MELUS," the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

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Paperback / softback. New. At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land use and biocultural change in the region, he posits this bad land-the arid West-as a crucible for the development of the human imagination. Each chapter deals closely with two novels that chronicle the same crisis within the Plains community. Cella highlights, for example, how Willa Cather reconciles her persistent romanticism with a growing disillusionment about the… Read More
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