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Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Janis P. Stout
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Description for Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Hardcover. Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 b/w photos, 69 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 667.
Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. Cathers travels repeatedly took her to the Southwest, and she wrote three novels with Southwestern settings. Starting with the masculine tradition of Western art that was prevalent when Austin and Cather launched their careers, Janis P. Stout shows how the authors challenged and revised that tradition. Rather than a ... Read more
Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. Cathers travels repeatedly took her to the Southwest, and she wrote three novels with Southwestern settings. Starting with the masculine tradition of Western art that was prevalent when Austin and Cather launched their careers, Janis P. Stout shows how the authors challenged and revised that tradition. Rather than a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726109
SKU
V9780896726109
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Reviews for Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Janis Stout's credentials are impeccable: as the author of biographies (of Cather and Katherine Anne Porter) and of critical studies of American women novelists, and as denizen of the West and Southwest, she knows her topic.
Thomas Austenfeld, Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 2009
Thomas Austenfeld, Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 2009