Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ... The author explains that his "special concern is to show how the pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). ... The same pattern can be found throughout the introductory chapter, culminates in the contemporary notion of "country vs. city" (p.10), and is best exem...

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Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ... The author explains that his "special concern is to show how the pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). ... The same pattern can be found throughout the introductory chapter, culminates in the contemporary notion of "country vs. city" (p.10), and is best exem...

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In their book, the authors advocated women taking the lead within the household in order to be successful contributors to the society in which they live. ... Thomas Cole, among other contemporary artists produced works centered around nature. ...

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