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Degraded Heartland Geoff Whitty he knew that complete knowledgeHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America long romanticized in pastoral literature becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while