Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography

by Heike Schaefer

Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collection of natural-history essays about the California deserts, the Western writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) was a prolific literary figure in the first few decades of the twentieth century. In addition to her essays and short stories, Austin produced novels, poems, and cultural criticism, and was well known as a feminist, political writer, and mystic. Over the past decade a number of Austin's books have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922739
• ISBN13: 9780813922737
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher