Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Dolan, Kathryn Cornell  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Beyond the fruited plain [Texte imprimé] : food and agriculture in U.S. literature, 1850-1905 / Kathryn Cornell Dolan

Publication : Lincoln : University of Nebraska press, 2014

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-272 p.) ; 23 cm

Comprend : Introduction: Fruits of expansion ; Expanding agriculture ; Local beans, apples, and berries ; Fruits of regionalism ; Sweet empires of labor ; The wheat strikes back ; Epilogue: Fruits of globalization.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
"Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have debated the best way to produce food and wealth for an expanding population with imperialistic tendencies. In a sweeping overview, Beyond the Fruited Plain traces the connections between nineteenth-century literature, agriculture, and U.S. territorial and economic expansion. Bringing together theories of globalization and ecocriticism, Kathryn Cornell Dolan offers new readings on the texts of such literary figures as Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Harriet Beecher Stowe as they examine conflicts of food, labor, class, race, gender, and time--issues still influencing U.S. food politics today. Beyond the Fruited Plain shows how these authors use their literature to imagine agricultural alternatives to national practices and in so doing prefigure twenty-first-century concerns about globalization, resource depletion, food security, and the relation of industrial agriculture to pollution, disease, and climate change. "

Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Agriculture -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Aliments -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780803249882 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0803249888 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780803269446 (erroné) (epub). - ISBN 9780803269439 (erroné) (pdf). - ISBN 9780803269453 (erroné) (mobi). - ISBN 0803269447 (epub). - ISBN 9780803269446 (epub)

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Notice n° :  FRBNF44241749 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)