Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011)Hardcover - 2011, 26 January 2011

In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.