SOURCE: Foster, David William. “Rural Culture Revisited.” In The Argentine Generation of 1880: Ideology and Cultural Texts, pp. 151-77. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
In the following essay, Foster distinguishes between the stereotypes of rural life and the attempted romanticization they inspired versus the realities of that lifestyle by individually examining several prominent works from the period.
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