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Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country
Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West
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eBook - ePub
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country
Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West
About this book
Longlisted for the Reading the West Award
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.
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.
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Yes, you can access Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country by Mark Fiege, Leisl Carr Childers, Michael J. Lansing, Mark Fiege,Leisl Carr Childers,Michael J. Lansing in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & North American Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Openings
- 1. Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country
- Ruin
- 2. The American West as Exploited Space
- 3. Creation as Erasure
- 4. Exploits against the Effete
- 5. Returning to the Best Idea We Ever Had
- Realism
- 6. The Legacies of Wallace Stegner and the Stegner Fellowships in a Changing American West
- 7. Sludge in the Cup
- 8. Hope in Public Lands
- Possibility
- 9. The Education of Wallace Stegner
- 10. Revisiting “The Marks of Human Passage”
- 11. The Geography of Hope in an Age of Uncertainty
- 12. The American West as Unlivable Space
- Epilogue
- Contributors
- Index
- About Mark Fiege
- About Michael J. Lansing
- About Leisl Carr Childers