[B]rings into sharp focus the significance of the farm novel as a genre which helped to both shape and give voice to the consciousness of the three national/cultural groups [American, English Canadian, French Canadian]. . . . [O]pen[s] vistas for further explorations . . . . Freitag brings back to critical awareness many completely forgotten novels . . . [that] beg to be reread today and reconsidered from the ecocritical perspective.

• IntroductionSurveying the FieldsEarly Sowings: St. John de Crèvecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean," Patrice Lacombe's La terre paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the BushLaws of Nature: Frank Norris's The Octopus, Albert Laberge's La Scouine, and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the MarshNew World Demeters: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild GeeseRich Harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County, Claude-Henri Grignon's Un homme et son péché, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the EarthFields of Crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur, and Robert Stead's GrainThe Cycle of Seasons: Louis Bromfield's The Farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents, and Grace Campbell's The Higher HillEpilogueWorks CitedIndex

[B]rings into sharp focus the significance of the farm novel as a genre which helped to both shape and give voice to the consciousness of the three national/cultural groups [American, English Canadian, French Canadian]. . . . [O]pen[s] vistas for further explorations . . . . Freitag brings back to critical awareness many completely forgotten novels . . . [that] beg to be reread today and reconsidered from the ecocritical perspective.

• IntroductionSurveying the FieldsEarly Sowings: St. John de Crèvecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean," Patrice Lacombe's La terre paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the BushLaws of Nature: Frank Norris's The Octopus, Albert Laberge's La Scouine, and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the MarshNew World Demeters: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild GeeseRich Harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County, Claude-Henri Grignon's Un homme et son péché, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the EarthFields of Crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur, and Robert Stead's GrainThe Cycle of Seasons: Louis Bromfield's The Farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents, and Grace Campbell's The Higher HillEpilogueWorks CitedIndex

[B]rings into sharp focus the significance of the farm novel as a genre which helped to both shape and give voice to the consciousness of the three national/cultural groups [American, English Canadian, French Canadian]. . . . [O]pen[s] vistas for further explorations . . . . Freitag brings back to critical awareness many completely forgotten novels . . . [that] beg to be reread today and reconsidered from the ecocritical perspective.

• IntroductionSurveying the FieldsEarly Sowings: St. John de Crèvecour's "History of Andrew, the Hebridean," Patrice Lacombe's La terre paternelle, and Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the BushLaws of Nature: Frank Norris's The Octopus, Albert Laberge's La Scouine, and Frederick Philip Grove's Settlers of the MarshNew World Demeters: Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Martha Ostenso's Wild GeeseRich Harvests: Joseph Kirkland's Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County, Claude-Henri Grignon's Un homme et son péché, and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the EarthFields of Crisis: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur, and Robert Stead's GrainThe Cycle of Seasons: Louis Bromfield's The Farm, Ringuet's Trente arpents, and Grace Campbell's The Higher HillEpilogueWorks CitedIndex