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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Missouri Ruralist
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
Author: John E. MillerPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826266592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. Along the way, he addresses the two most controversial issues for Wilder/Lane aficionados: how much did Lane actually contribute to the writing of the Little House books, and what was Wilder’s real attitude toward American Indians. Interpreting these writers in their larger historical and cultural contexts, Miller reconsiders their formidable artistic, political, and literary contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s. He looks at what was happening in 1932—from depression conditions and politics to chain stores and celebrity culture—to shed light on Wilder’s life, and he shows how actual “little houses” established ideas of home that resonated emotionally for both writers. In considering each woman’s ties to history, Miller compares Wilder with Frederick Jackson Turner as a frontier mythmaker and examines Lane’s unpublished history of Missouri in the context of a contemporaneous project, Thomas Hart Benton’s famous Jefferson City mural. He also looks at Wilder’s Missouri Ruralist columns to assess her pre–Little House values and writing skills, and he readdresses her literary treatment of Native Americans. A final chapter shows how Wilder’s and Lane’s conservative political views found expression in their work, separating Lane’s more libertarian bent from Wilder’s focus on writing moralist children’s fiction. These nine thoughtful essays expand the critical discussion on Wilder and Lane beyond the Little House. Miller portrays them as impassioned and dedicated writers who were deeply involved in the historical changes and political challenges of their times—and contends that questions over the books’ authorship do not do justice to either woman’s creative investment in the series. Miller demystifies the aura of nostalgia that often prevents modern readers from seeing Wilder as a real-life woman, and he depicts Lane as a kindred artistic spirit, helping readers better understand mother and daughter as both women and authors.
The Tractor
Author: Capper Farm Press, Topeka, KanPublisher:
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Category : Farm engines
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist
Author: Laura Ingalls WilderPublisher: University of Missouri
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Collects all of the essays by Laura Ingalls Wilder that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924, offering Wilder's unique perspective on life and politics during the World War I era and her comments on the challenges of surviving and thriving in Missouri's rustic Ozark hill country"--Provided by publisher.
Printers' Ink
Author: Judicious Advertising and Advertising Experience
Author: Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author: Miranda A. Green-BarteetPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496823095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho Williams Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume’s contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.
Prairie Fires
Author: Caroline FraserPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627792767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
An historical biography of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, using unpublished manuscripts, letter, diaries, and land and financial records to fill in the gaps not covered in her "Prairie" books.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author: Pamela Smith HillPublisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN: 097779556X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.
Implement & Tractor Trade Journal
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Category : Agricultural implements
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Jan. 31, 1967- lists Nebraska tractor tests.