{"product_id":"beyond-the-fruited-plain-food-and-agriculture-in-us-literature-1850-1905-9780803249882","title":"Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgriculture 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sweeping overview, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Fruited Plain\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Fruited Plain\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn Cornell Dolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.85h x 5.51w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803249882\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606501351561,"sku":"9780803249882","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a58e7fa7-f059-4b71-b4c9-6ca71ed977a8.jpg?v=1776752825","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/beyond-the-fruited-plain-food-and-agriculture-in-us-literature-1850-1905-9780803249882","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}