...This chapter explores American Hebrew poets' idealization of life in the farms and villages of New England and upstate New York. The poets were drawn to the subject of rural life in the hope of finding a connection to themselves—a bridge between what was natively and indelibly American...

... painting of rural life, journalistic and descriptive accounts of the countryside, and analyses based on social psychology. The chapter also examines the emergence of human geography as a discipline that studies the relationship between the geographical environment of Egypt and peasant modes of life...