Reclaiming the American farmer

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"In this stimulating study, [author] views the Southern Renaissance, 1900-1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, [author] argues, reframed southern history and culture. Instead of being rooted in the plantation culture that had provided inspiration for nineteenth-century southern writers, the new literature was inspired by "southern folk," the common people who farmed the earth and whose values derived from Jeffersonian agrarianism and democracy."--Book jacket.

subjects: American Pastoral fiction,  American literature,  Farm life in literature,  Farmers in literature,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Intellectual life,  Myth in literature,  Regionalism in literature,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Mythology in literature,  Southern states, intellectual life,  Southern states, in literature

Places: Southern States

Times: 1865-,  20th century