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ruin, realism, and possibility in the American West
ix, 322 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Wallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works, 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.
Prologue : Wallace Stegner in his time and in ours / Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers -- Wallace Stegner's unsettled country : ruin, realism, and possibility in the American West / Mark Fiege -- The American West as exploited space : from one nation to poston / Alexandra Hernandez -- Creation as erasure : Wallace Stegner and the making and unmaking of regions / Michael J. Lansing -- Exploits against the effete : Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto, men of Western letters / Flannery Burke -- Returning to the best idea we ever had / Michael Childers -- The legacies of Wallace Stegner and the Stegner fellowships in a changing American West / Nancy S. Cook -- Sludge in the cup : Wallace Stegner's philosophical legacy and the hard job ahead / Michael A. Brown -- Hope in public lands : a conversation / Leisl Carr Childers and Adam M. Sowards -- The education of Wallace Stegner / Melody Graulich -- Revisiting "The marks of human passage" : lessons from the dinosaur and Bears Ears National Monument controversies / Robert B. Keiter -- The geography of hope in an age of uncertainty / Paul Formisano -- The American West as unlivable space : hope, despair, and adaptation in an era of climate chaos / Robert M. Wilson -- Epilogue : richer for this sorrow / Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers.
edited by Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection