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Putting the Past Out to Pasture: Nostalgia, Regional Aesthetics and the Mutualist Imagination of the 1890s

Putting the Past Out to Pasture: Nostalgia, Regional Aesthetics and the Mutualist Imagination of... <jats:p> “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.” </jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Putting the Past Out to Pasture: Nostalgia, Regional Aesthetics and the Mutualist Imagination of the 1890s

Modernist Cultures , Volume 3 (2): 173 – May 1, 2008

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© Edinburgh University Press, 2010
ISSN
2041-1022
eISSN
1753-8629
DOI
10.3366/E2041102209000409
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Abstract

<jats:p> “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.” </jats:p>

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Modernist CulturesEdinburgh University Press

Published: May 1, 2008

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