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Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West

Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark Fiege (Editor), Leisl Carr Childers (Editor), Michael J. Lansing (Editor)Publish date:2024-02-01Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496236173ISBN-10:1496236173UPC:9781496236173Book Category:Literary Criticism, NatureBook Subcategory:American, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:RegionalSize:8.90 x 5.91 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC8VP2R6TE
Wallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduced the beauty and character of the American West to thousands of readers. Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country assesses his life, work, and legacy in light of contemporary issues and crises. Along with Stegner's achievements, the contributors show how his failures offer equally crucial ways to assess the past, present, and future of the region.

Drawing from history, literature, philosophy, law, geography, and park management, the contributors consider Stegner's racial liberalism and regional vision, his gendered view of the world, his understandings of conservation and the environment, his personal experience of economic collapse and poverty, his yearning for community, and his abiding attachment to the West. Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country is an even-handed reclamation of Stegner's enduring relevance to anyone concerned about the American West's uncertain future.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496236173ISBN-10:1496236173UPC:9781496236173Book Category:Literary Criticism, NatureBook Subcategory:American, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:RegionalSize:8.90 x 5.91 x 1.18 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC8VP2R6TE
Mark Fiege is a professor of history and Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University. He is the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Michael J. Lansing is a professor of history at Augsburg University. He is the author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics. Leisl Carr Childers is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University. She is the author of The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin.

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Mark Fiege (Editor), Leisl Carr Childers (Editor), Michael J. Lansing (Editor)

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