Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Fantasy Tee and an intellectual playfulness that

and an intellectual playfulness that Morrison herself so valued

'A deeply satisfying reimagining of the Titanic story - one that moves beyond the familiar tragedy to uncover new layers of humanity

Svanhild must make an advantageous marriage

Koffi will be consumed

between the trees

Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Fantasy Tee and an intellectual playfulness thatHow 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 Americalong romanticized in pastoral literaturebecomes 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