Mary Austin And The American West
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Mary Austin And The American West
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Author : Susan Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-01-07
Mary Austin And The American West written by Susan Goodman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-07 with History categories.
Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.
A Literary History Of The American West
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Author : Western Literature Association (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher: TCU Press
Release Date : 1987
A Literary History Of The American West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and has been published by TCU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.
Women Writers Of The American West 1833 1927
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Author : Nina Baym
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-08-17
Women Writers Of The American West 1833 1927 written by Nina Baym and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.
Playing House In The American West
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Author : Cathryn Halverson
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Playing House In The American West written by Cathryn Halverson and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life The controlling metaphor Cathryn Halverson uses in her engrossing study is “playing house.” From Caroline Kirkland and Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather and Marilynne Robinson, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, western authors have persistently embraced wayward or eccentric housekeeping to prove a woman’s difference from western neighbors and eastern readers alike. The readings in Playing House investigate the surprising textual ends to which westerners turn the familiar terrain of the home: evaluating community; arguing for different conceptions of race and class; and perhaps most especially, resisting traditional gender roles. Western women writers, Halverson argues, render the home as a stage for autonomy, resistance, and imagination rather than as a site of sacrifice and obligation. The western women examined in Playing House in the American West are promoted and read as representatives of a region, as insiders offering views of distant and intriguing ways of life, even as they conceive of themselves as outsiders. By playing with domestic conventions, they recast the region they describe, portraying the West as a place that fosters female agency, individuality, and subjectivity.
A Companion To The Literature And Culture Of The American West
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Author : Nicolas S. Witschi
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-02-03
A Companion To The Literature And Culture Of The American West written by Nicolas S. Witschi and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies
Mary Austin S Regionalism
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Author : Heike Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2004
Mary Austin S Regionalism written by Heike Schaefer and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Re Imagining The Modern American West
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-09
Re Imagining The Modern American West written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09 with Art categories.
Etulain casts a wide net in his new book. He discusses novelists from Jack London to John Steinbeck, and on to Joan Didion. He covers historians from Frederick Jackson Turner to Earl Pomeroy and Patricia Nelson Limerick, and artists from Frederic Remington and Charles Russell to Georgia O'Keefe and R. C. Gorman. The author places emphasis on women painters and authors such as Mary Hallock Foote, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Judith Baca.
Re Imagining The Modern American West
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1996-09
Re Imagining The Modern American West written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09 with History categories.
Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
The American West And Its Interpreters
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2023-05-01
The American West And Its Interpreters written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-01 with History categories.
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.
West Of The Border
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Author : Noreen Groover Lape
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2000
West Of The Border written by Noreen Groover Lape and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment.".