Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780252093135
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252035975
Subject： I0 Literary Theory;K7 Americas History
Keyword： 文学理论,美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves.