Clear-cutting Eden - Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature

Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s. This title studies the ways that nature is conceived of and portrayed by four Southern writers of the era: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner.