Mary Austin's Regionalism : Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography Hardback
by Heike Schaefer
Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism series
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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 complexity of Austin's work.
Considering unpublished materials and the full range of Austin's literary and theoretical writing, Mary Austin's Regionalism presents Austin as a significant early twentieth-century author who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democratic American culture.
Austin brought an environmental awareness to the exploration of the race, gender, and class dynamics informing the European American colonization of the West.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780813922737
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780813922737
