This Study Of Late 19th-century American Literature Uses The Period's Rural Fiction To Reveal The Increasingly Intricate And Sometimes Problematic Connections Between Urban And Rural Life. Lines Of Time, Sight And Capital: Train Journeys -- Commerce And Carnival At The Canvas City: Travelling Circuses -- The Place Of Medical Knowledge: Country Doctors -- A Government Of Men And Not Of Laws: Lynch Mobs -- Geographies Of The Future: Utopias. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English