03925nam 2200721Ia 450 991095982460332120200520144314.097866130177109781283017718128301771797802520931350252093135(CKB)3390000000006667(OCoLC)720822663(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532325(SSID)ssj0000545445(PQKBManifestationID)11336698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545445(PQKBWorkID)10559668(PQKB)10930192(MiAaPQ)EBC3413853(MdBmJHUP)muse23625(Au-PeEL)EBL3413853(CaPaEBR)ebr10532325(CaONFJC)MIL301771(OCoLC)923493063(Perlego)2532686(EXLCZ)99339000000000666720101006d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWomen writers of the American West, 1833-1927 /Nina Baym1st ed.Urbana, Chicago University of Illinois Pressc20111 online resource (385 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780252078842 0252078845 9780252035975 0252035976 Includes bibliographical references and index.The West as a woman writer's subject -- Texas and Oklahoma -- The Pacific Northwest -- Upper California and Nevada -- Utah -- Colorado -- The Great Plains -- The High Plains -- Southern California and Nevada -- The Southwest -- On the trail, on the road -- The authors -- Bibliography -- Index.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. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent. American literatureWest (U.S.)History and criticismAmerican literatureWest (U.S.)Bio-bibliographyWomen authors, AmericanWest (U.S.)BiographyWest (U.S.)In literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authors, American810.9/9287BBaym Nina1186587MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959824603321Women writers of the American West, 1833-19274366110UNINA