Table of Contents

Introduction: Agrarian Questions, Novel Answers
Chapter One: Wither the Latifundio? Landowner Romance
Chapter Two: How Are Oligarchies Unmade? Landowner Realism
Chapter Three: How do Peasants Become (Doubly) Free? Modern Agrarian Epic
Chapter Four : How Long Can the Peasantry Last? Anti-Epics of Rural Immiseration
Chapter Five: What Are Cities Made of? The Boom’s Vanishing Agrarian Mediators
Coda: What’s Left of the Countryside? The 21st-Century Post-Agrarian Novel