Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813512182
Category: Fiction
Page: 267
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Language: en
Pages: 267
Pages: 267
Stories set in the deserts and mountains of California draw on the relationship of people to the land
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Arguing for a radical re-evaluation of the modernist aesthetic, the essayists consider how women writers created their own version of modernism through the use of sentimental and domestic subject matter, by writing about maternal concerns, and through experiments with plot, voice, and points of view.
Language: en
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The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes.
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Presents profiles of a variety of American women conservationists, including Mary Austin, Marjory Stoneman, Rachel Carson, and Helen Nearing.
