Wallace Stegner's unsettled country : ruin, realism, and possibility in the American West /
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 Coun...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- 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.