Degraded Heartland John A. Lent Rama is distraught by grief

Rama is distraught by grief

even if they were not equally concerned about the problem of distractibility

Swift's self-lacerating savagery sets the tone

Shedding light on the impact of American migration in forming a burgeoning moderate religious direction in Israeli life that has challenged the hegemony of the long dominant direction within Religious Zionism

Working at the intersection of culture and economy

Degraded Heartland John A. Lent Rama is distraught by griefHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America long romanticized in pastoral literature becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while