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At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the "Indian wilderness" in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land

American fiction --- Pastoral literature, American --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Great Plains --- Plains, Great --- Northwest, Canadian --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- 792 <09> --- 792 <09> Geschiedenis van het theater. Toneelgeschiedenis --- Geschiedenis van het theater. Toneelgeschiedenis --- Theater --- Théâtre --- Historiography --- Historiographie