{"product_id":"exile-nature-and-transformation-in-the-life-of-mary-hallock-foote-9781647790189","title":"Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining a breadth of scholarship, insightful critical thinking, and an engaging personal interaction with Mary Hallock Foote's substantial collection of illustrations and writings, Megan Riley McGilchrist provides a significant contribution to western literature and the lives of western writers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window into the remarkable, little-known nineteenth-century personal history of accomplished American author and illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote, a woman both of her time, and ahead of it. When Mary gave up a successful career as an illustrator in New York to follow her husband, a mining engineer, to the West, she found herself in a new, unfamiliar, and often challenging world—sometimes feeling like an exile. The thousands of pages of her unpublished letters, which form the foundation of this book, give rare insight into the process of acculturation and eventually the transformation that she experienced. This wide-ranging analysis also examines the role that nature and Mary's lifelong connection with the natural world played in her adaptation to the western mining towns where she spent much of the rest of her life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn many ways, Mary's life mirrored that of author Megan Riley McGilchrist, whose parallel exile began in 1977 when she left America for England. Drawing equivalences with Mary's life as an exile and her own life as an expatriate American woman, Megan provides a meditation on her own transformation, as much as on Mary's. Megan demonstrates what it has been like to be a twenty-first-century American expatriate, Californian-turned-Londoner—to find common ground in the life of a nineteenth-century woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprising elements of biography, literary analysis, history, and personal history, and containing many unpublished excerpts from Mary's voluminous correspondence, \u003ci\u003eExile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote\u003c\/i\u003e offers insight into the ways Mary perceived the world around her. It also provides insight into the experiences of exiles of any time—people who have left a familiar environment to embark on a new life in a new and not necessarily comfortable setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the kind of book more literary and cultural critics should be writing: A book that offers rich and deep analysis but in a novelistic way, a book that fully demonstrates how reading-whether novels, letters, illustrations-fully enriches our understanding of our own lives.\" - Melody Graulich, professor of English and American studies, Utah State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Backstory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Correspondences\u003cbr\u003e Transformation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Exile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seeing Landscape: a personal view\u003cbr\u003e Reflection\u003cbr\u003e Nature in Exile\u003cbr\u003e The Nostalgia of the Exile: A personal view\u003cbr\u003e Understanding Exile\u003cbr\u003e Reflections on Transformation: An interpretation\u003cbr\u003e Transformation\u003cbr\u003e Interpretation of Landscape\u003cbr\u003e What If?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Almaden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Echoes of Ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003e Parallels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeadville\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER FIVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdaho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary and Helena: a retrospective view\u003cbr\u003e Reflection\u003cbr\u003e Living in a New Landscape\u003cbr\u003e Mirror Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrass Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary and \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Resolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e WORKS CITED\u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469703352663,"sku":"9781647790189","price":32.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781647790189.jpg?v=1744896022","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exile-nature-and-transformation-in-the-life-of-mary-hallock-foote-9781647790189","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}