The farm novel in North America genre and nation in the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, 1845-1945
From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In this...
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- Surveying the fields
- Early sowings: St. John de Crevecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean,"
- Patrice Lacombe's La Terre Paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush
- Laws of nature: Frank Norris's The octopus, Albert Laberge's La scouine and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the marsh
- New world demeters: Willa Cather's O pioneers!, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild geese
- Rich harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the meanest man in Spring County
- Claude-Henri Grignon's Un Homme et son peche, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the earth
- Fields of crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of wrath, Felix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maitre-draveur, and Robert Stead's Grain
- The cycle of seasons: Louis Bromfield's The farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents and Grace Campbell's The higher hill