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Author: Esther F. Lanigan Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 9780816517145 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
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"This book seamlessly combines biography and criticism. [Lanigan] adeptly analyzes Austin's life...and also offers insightful analyses of Austin's writing. Like other females of her period, she received too little recognition for her original prose style and social critiques. Thanks to Song of a Maverick, we hear Mary Austin's voice more clearly and appreciatively."ÑCarol J. Singley in American Literature "[Lanigan] provides illuminating sociological background and lucidly marshals the existing biolgraphical data."ÑChoice "Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and respected author and activitst in her lifetime but is little known in ours. In this excellent biography...[Lanigan] chose to focus on a few central relationships in Austin's life, to explore in some depth a few central texts, and to understand the interior life of her subject. She has done a splendid job."ÑAnn J. Lane in the Journal of American History
Author: Susan Goodman Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520246357 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
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"Finally, a book that does Mary Austin justice in all her complexity and takes her seriously as a challenging and varied writer."—Melody Graulich, coeditor of Exploring Lost Borders "A wonderful wide-angle view of an era in the American West and its literary, artistic, and anthropological figures."—Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Author: Mary Austin Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 0865345392 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 426
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In her autobiography, published in 1932, Austin speaks frankly about her life while also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and influenced her life and writing. A prolific writer, she wrote novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry. She was an early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of women and minority groups.
Author: Heike Schaefer Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813922737 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 312
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Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author: Mary Austin Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 470
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Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history--the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and feminist organizing of the time, exemplified in the successful efforts of an independent young woman to buy back her family's Owens Valley ranch.
Author: Mary Austin Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813512181 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story "as another character, as the instigator of plot," and that the story must reflect "the essential qualities of the land." In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman.
Author: Mary Austin Publisher: Western Literature and Fiction ISBN: 9780874172539 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the desert's open spaces, finding a love and a landscape that will change his life.
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Esther F. Lanigan
Author: Susan Goodman
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Heike Schaefer
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Mary Austin
Author: Mary Austin