The Farm Novel in North America - Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Florian Freitag

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Florian Freitag
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2013
• EAN: 9781571135377
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-537-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer; European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies