The Farm Novel in North America

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath , Sheila Watson's The Double Hook , and Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine . 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 belongto the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of th