The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered...
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The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin land" of the explorers and pioneers, subject to masculine desires, and by others as a masculine space in which the feminine is neither desired nor appreciated. Both Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy focus on this landscape and environment; its spiritual, narrative, symbolic, imaginative, and ideologic
Cover; The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner: Myths of the Frontier; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Changing Landscape; 1 Myth, Environment, Gender; 2 Stegner's West; 3 McCarthy's Western Fictions; Conclusion: Across a Great Divide; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
