Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism

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Disability and Rurality in American Literature: Ecosomatic Pastoralism highlights the ways in which contemporary American writers deploy disability in order to deconstruct American pastoralism. Through contextualized close readings of fictional and nonfictional narratives about the disability-rurality nexus, this book charts a literary geography of disability that challenges and ultimately expands the pastoral ideal at the core of the American environmental imagination.

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Matthew J.C. Cella is associate professor of English at Shippensburg University