LEADER 03925nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910959824603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613017710 010 $a9781283017718 010 $a1283017717 010 $a9780252093135 010 $a0252093135 035 $a(CKB)3390000000006667 035 $a(OCoLC)720822663 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532325 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000545445 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545445 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559668 035 $a(PQKB)10930192 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413853 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413853 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532325 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301771 035 $a(OCoLC)923493063 035 $a(Perlego)2532686 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000006667 100 $a20101006d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen writers of the American West, 1833-1927 /$fNina Baym 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana, Chicago $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780252078842 311 08$a0252078845 311 08$a9780252035975 311 08$a0252035976 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 8 $aWomen 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$vBio-bibliography 606 $aWomen authors, American$zWest (U.S.)$vBiography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature 615 0$aWomen authors, American 676 $a810.9/9287 676 $aB 700 $aBaym$b Nina$01186587 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959824603321 996 $aWomen writers of the American West, 1833-1927$94366110 997 $aUNINA