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Worlding the Western

Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community

by Neil Campbell

ISBN: 9781647790554

Pub Date: 13 September 2022

Format: Paperback

272 Pages

Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to put the world back in ways that challenge the dark side of globalization and proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.

Savage West

The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage

by O. Alan Weltzien

ISBN: 9781647790677

Pub Date: 10 January 2022

Format: Paperback

257 Pages

Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.

Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote

by Megan Riley McGilchrist

ISBN: 9781647790189

Pub Date: 30 November 2021

Format: Paperback

224 Pages

Perceptive study of the life of writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote

Visions of a Basque American Westerner

International Perspective on the Writings of Frank Bergon

by Frank Bergon

ISBN: 9781949805192

Pub Date: 3 March 2021

Format: Paperback

A book analyzing the work of writer Frank Bergon

Farm to Form

Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire

by Jessica Martell

ISBN: 9781948908368

Pub Date: 4 March 2020

Format: Hardcover

240 Pages

Farm to Form is the first book to investigate the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to Form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a “modernist” terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation.

Make Waves

Water in Contemporary Literature and Film

by Paula Anca Farca

ISBN: 9781948908429

Pub Date: 16 October 2019

Format: Paperback

312 Pages

Make Waves demonstrates how water is an immense reservoir of artistic potentiality and an agent of historical and cultural exchange and raises awareness about global water debates and crises.

Becoming Willa Cather

Creation and Career

by Daryl W. Palmer

ISBN: 9781948908276

Pub Date: 21 August 2019

Format: Hardcover

264 Pages

Drawing on original archival research and paying unprecedented attention to the author’s early short stories, Daryl W. Palmer offers a groundbreaking account of Willa Cather’s evolution as a writer. Readers will encounter a surprisingly adventurous young author, embracing a predilection for experimentation—in life and art—that resulted in her emergence as a major novelist intent on reimagining the American West.