Putting the Past Out to Pasture
Nostalgia, Regional Aesthetics and the Mutualist Imagination of the 1890s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Funchion (0000-0002-8734-5495, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-191 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e2041102209000409 |
| OpenAlex | W1990562832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
“Among the Corn-Rows,” a short story appearing in Hamlin Garland's Main-Travelled Roads (1891), opens with a telling dialogue between homesteader Rob Rodemaker and Seagraves, a local newspaper editor. At one point during their exchange, Rodemaker explains why he left his native Waupac County in Wisconsin to settle further west in the Dakota Territory: “We fellers workin' out back there got more ‘n’ more like hands, an' less like human beings. Y' know, Waupac is a kind of summer resort, and the people that use' t' come in summers looked down on us cusses in the fields an' shops. I couldn't stand it.”
Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Media studies · Newspaper · Point (geometry · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |