Mary Austin's regionalism : reflections on gender, genre, and geography / Heike Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaefer, Heike, 1969-

Series:

Under the sign of nature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934--Criticism and interpretation.

Austin, Mary.

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934.

Natural history.

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934--Knowledge and learning--West (U.S.).

Natural history--West (U.S.)--History.

Women and literature--West (U.S.).

Women and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Regionalism in literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 290 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Summary:

Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays on the deserts of Arizona and Southern California, Mary Austin was a prolific writer in the first few decades of the twentieth century, producing novels, essays, biographies, children's literature, and cultural criticism, and was well known as a feminist, political writer, and mystic. Heike Schaefer presents Austin as a significant twentieth-century writer who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democratic American Culture.

Contents:

"The land sets the limit" : Austin's concept of regionalism

Nature writing as regionalist practice

Sense of place

Deserting the myth of the West : the gender of nature and the nature of gender

Who owns the place? : regional development and the future of the nation

Regionalist conversations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.

ISBN:

0813922739

OCLC:

53284932