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Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (Under the Sign of Nature)
Heike Schaefer
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Description for Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (Under the Sign of Nature)
Hardcover. Considering unpublished materials and the full range of Mary Austin's literary and theoretical writing, this text presents Austin as a significant early 20th-century author who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democratic American culture. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 603.
Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays about the California deserts, the Western writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) was a prolific literary figure in the first few decades of the twentieth century. In addition to her essays and short stories, Austin produced novels, poems, and cultural criticism, and was well known as a feminist, political writer, and mystic. Over the past decade a number of Austin's books have been reissued and her work has been the subject of increasing critical attention. Heike Schaefer's study complements that renewed interest with a fresh, broad appreciation of the ... Read more
Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays about the California deserts, the Western writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) was a prolific literary figure in the first few decades of the twentieth century. In addition to her essays and short stories, Austin produced novels, poems, and cultural criticism, and was well known as a feminist, political writer, and mystic. Over the past decade a number of Austin's books have been reissued and her work has been the subject of increasing critical attention. Heike Schaefer's study complements that renewed interest with a fresh, broad appreciation of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813922737
SKU
V9780813922737
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Reviews for Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography (Under the Sign of Nature)
While many critics have recognized that Mary Austin is a regionalist who turned to regional cultures to envision a more democratic and spiritually rich national culture, no one has explored this issue as comprehensibly, looking at the entire body of Austin's work. Mary Austin's Regionalism is original because it reaches beyond Austin to debates about regionalism, environmental writing, identity, and ... Read more