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- catalog abstract ""In contrast to the traditional frontiers and pioneers focus of western studies, Maverick Autobiographies looks at women writers who came not to but from the West. Telling three larger-than-life stories, Cathryn Halverson offers an alternative history of American women's autobiography and a new view of western women's literature. Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley, and Juanita Harrison, she argues, rewrote frontier myths to make a space for themselves as female iconoclasts from the West. Creating an ardent readership for western women's "naked" desires, they became best-selling celebrity authors. After their intense early fame, though, they virtually disappeared. Halverson examines why, and brings their texts back to light through a weaving of biography, literary analysis, and cultural history - in the process, urging us to reformulate our notions of what it means to be a "western writer." Halverson's discoveries will appeal to scholars and critics of Western American literature and women's studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13326109.
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""In contrast to the traditional frontiers and pioneers focus of western studies, Maverick Autobiographies looks at women writers who came not to but from the West. Telling three larger-than-life stories, Cathryn Halverson offers an alternative history of American women's autobiography and a new view of western women's literature. Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley, and Juanita Harrison, she argues, rewrote frontier myths to make a space for themselves as female iconoclasts from the West. Creating an ardent readership for western women's "naked" desires, they became best-selling celebrity authors. After their intense early fame, though, they virtually disappeared.".
- catalog description "Halverson examines why, and brings their texts back to light through a weaving of biography, literary analysis, and cultural history - in the process, urging us to reformulate our notions of what it means to be a "western writer." Halverson's discoveries will appeal to scholars and critics of Western American literature and women's studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-221) and index.".
- catalog description "Western genius, eastward bound -- The devil and desire in Butte, Montana -- After The story of Mary MacLane -- Little girls and their "explores" -- The disappearing region -- "Betwixt and between" : southerner, Californian, European?".
- catalog extent "xviii, 230 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Maverick autobiographies.".
- catalog identifier "0299197204 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maverick autobiographies.".
- catalog isPartOf "Wisconsin studies in autobiography".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Maverick autobiographies.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "818/.5208099287/0978 22".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature West (U.S.) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Homes and haunts West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Autobiography Women authors.".
- catalog subject "PS271 .H29 2004".
- catalog subject "Women West (U.S.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature West (U.S.) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, American Homes and haunts West (U.S.)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Western genius, eastward bound -- The devil and desire in Butte, Montana -- After The story of Mary MacLane -- Little girls and their "explores" -- The disappearing region -- "Betwixt and between" : southerner, Californian, European?".
- catalog title "Maverick autobiographies : women writers and the American West, 1900-1936 / Cathryn Halverson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".