Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustration on front cover of a woman standing with her luggage, next to a railroad.
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Illustration on front cover of a woman standing with her luggage, next to a railroad.
A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
Author: Mary Hallock FooteA Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
Author: Mary Hallock FooteReading A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
Author: Christine Hill SmithPublisher: Boise State University Western Writers Series
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Soft Canons
Author: Karen L. KilcupPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587292874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Recognizing that masculine literary tradition can include marginalized male writers as well as canonized female writers and that traditions themselves change over time, the essays in this insightful and coherent collection also explore the investment of the writers, as well as ninetieth- and twentieth-century readers, in canon creation. As it reconstructs conversations between these earlier authors and initiates new dialogues for today’s readers, Soft Canons offers provocative reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural history.
Re-imagining the Modern American West
Author: Richard W. EtulainPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816516834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
Claims and Speculations
Author: Janet FloydPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351395
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song. Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike. With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.
The New American West in Literature and the Arts
Author: Amaia Ibarraran-BigalondoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000092836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes feeding the idea of that myth, sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West, in a two-way cross-cultural journey, which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New—always self-renewing—American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.
Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose
Author: Richard W. EtulainPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 164779143X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The book provides an introductory overview to a vast subject through “illuminative moments” that illustrate major shifts in the literary history of the region. The book’s focus is on novels, histories, and other nonfiction works that trace Pacific Northwest prose in chronological order through three periods: the frontier, regional, and post-regional eras. Etulain provides extensive coverage of the writings of notable authors, including novelists Frederic Homer Balch and Mary Hallock Foote, offering an understanding of frontier romantic and Local Color Writers. He also explores the works of H. G. Merriam and novelist H. L. Davis, illustrating regional prose writings. Finally, Etulain includes a panoply of writers who exemplify an emphasis on gender, race and ethnicity, and environmental texts from the post-WWII period. Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose delivers a first-time overview of the region’s literary contributions that will interest both scholars and general readers alike.
Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World
Author: Laurel ForsterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351167677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s emerged out of a particular set of economic and social circumstances in which women were unequally treated in the home, the workplace and in culture and wider society. As part of the WLM, women collected together in disparate groups and contexts to express their dissatisfaction with their role and position in society, making their concerns apparent through consciousness-raising and activism. This important time in women’s history is revisited in this collection, which looks afresh at the diversity of the movement and the ways in which feminism of the time might be reconsidered and historicised. The contributions here cover a range of important issues, including feminist art, local activism, class distinction, racial politics, perceptions of motherhood, girls’ education, feminist print cultures, the recovery of feminist histories and feminist heritage, and they span personal and political concerns in Britain, Canada and the United States. Each contributor considers the impact of the WLM in a different context, reflecting the variety of issues faced by women and helping us to understand the problems of the second wave. This book broadens our understanding of the impact and the implication of the WLM, explores the dynamism of women’s activism and radicalism, and acknowledges the significance of this movement to ongoing contemporary feminisms. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.