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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 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.

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  • ""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."@en
  • "This study investigates American rurality and modernity as mutually sustaining concepts, and centres on women's engagement with those concepts. The aim is to articulate a different mode of American modernism that signals meaning and appeal for women and to show how that mode responds to prevalent attitudes in the culture at large.--[Source inconnue]."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "A new heartland women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America"
  • "A new heartland : women, modernity, and the Agrarian ideal in America"
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  • "A new heartland women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America"
  • "A New Heartland : Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America"

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