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

Florian Freitag

The Farm Novel in North America

Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945

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Florian Freitag

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: December 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781571138774

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
Series:: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture

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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 belong to 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 19th century to its apogee in French Canada around the middle of the 20th. 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 19th-century North 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 French-Canadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative North American 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.

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The Farm Novel in North America

Genre and Nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-21

1 - Surveying the Fields
pp 22-64

2 - Early Sowings: St. John de Crèvecocur's “History of Andrew, the Hebridean,” Patrice Lacombe's La terre paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush
pp 65-105

3 - Laws of Nature: Frank Norris's The Octopus, Albert Laberge's La Scouine, and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the Marsh
pp 106-146

4 - New World Demeters: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese
pp 147-185

5 - Rich Harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County, Claude-Henri Grignon's Un homme et son péché, and Frederick Philp Grove's Fruits of the Earth
pp 186-223

6 - Fields of Crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur, and Robert J. C. Stead's Grain
pp 224-267

7 - The Cycle of Seasons: Louis Bromfield's The Farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents, and Grace Campbell's The Higher Hill
pp 268-308

Epilogue
pp 309-316

Works Cited
pp 317-354

Index
pp 355-364

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