{"product_id":"wallace-stegners-unsettled-country-9781496236173","title":"Wallace Stegners Unsettled Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection shows that Wallace Stegner’s work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Great writers present us with gifts as well as dilemmas. In this unflinching set of essays by scholars and practitioners of inclusive western history, Wallace Stegner is presented as bearing both. From various angles and social positions the contributors in this enlightening collection examine Stegner’s ideas, texts, political commitments, blind spots, and legacies, revealing not only Stegner’s mixed impact on American literature and culture but also how his critical vision can spark hope in these troubled times.”—Tiya Miles, author of \u003ci\u003eAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e“Reappraisal is the perpetual destiny of artists and writers, so revisiting the life and messages of Wallace Stegner, the quintessential literary voice of the American West, is inevitable. In a collection that transports Stegner into the twenty-first century, the gifts the famed writer bequeathed us—beautiful expression, insights that can shade into horror, and yet hope for the future—are on display from every contributor. For all who treasure Stegner’s prose, his promotion of the art of writing, and his immersion in epic environmental battles, this smart, cutting-edge anthology may be the best book about him yet.”—Dan Flores, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCoyote America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWild New World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wallace Stegner was one of the greatest original minds America ever produced, and I think he’d be quietly happy to see his work expanded, challenged, and built on to great effect in this smart volume. It’s a very high tribute.”—Bill McKibben, author of \u003ci\u003eFalter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The contributors to \u003ci\u003eWallace Stegner’s Unsettled County\u003c\/i\u003e revisit Stegner’s work in a critical and thoughtful way that reminds us of the brilliance of Stegner without glossing over his many faults as an observer of the American West. By drawing on inspiration from Stegner’s poignant observations, in these essays we find insight into what makes the American West such a complex and compelling region of study. As the authors remind us, only by dealing critically with our past as an unsettled region can we hope to make a better future.”—María E. Montoya, author of \u003ci\u003eTranslating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To this day, Wallace Stegner continues to stand as the greatest writer on the modern American West. \u003ci\u003eWallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country\u003c\/i\u003e captures his life and prominence beautifully. . . . As the authors ably show, his understanding of the past and vision for the future was based on his lifetime out on the ground in the arid West and his impeccable research into history, literature, and public policy. Stegner’s work was perhaps the most single important body of thought during the congressional action of the 1970s that is still the heart of modern conservation policy.”—Charles Wilkinson, author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Wallace Stegner in His Time and in Ours\u003cbr\u003e Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers\u003cbr\u003e Openings\u003cbr\u003e 1. Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West\u003cbr\u003e Mark Fiege\u003cbr\u003e Ruin\u003cbr\u003e 2. The American West as Exploited Space: From \u003ci\u003eOne Nation\u003c\/i\u003e to Poston\u003cbr\u003e Alexandra Hernandez\u003cbr\u003e 3. Creation as Erasure: Wallace Stegner and the Making and Unmaking of Regions\u003cbr\u003e Michael J. Lansing\u003cbr\u003e 4. Exploits against the Effete: Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto, Men of Western Letters\u003cbr\u003e Flannery Burke\u003cbr\u003e 5. Returning to the Best Idea We Ever Had\u003cbr\u003e Michael Childers\u003cbr\u003e Realism\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Legacies of Wallace Stegner and the Stegner Fellowships in a Changing American West\u003cbr\u003e Nancy S. Cook\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sludge in the Cup: Wallace Stegner’s Philosophical Legacy and the Hard Job Ahead\u003cbr\u003e Michael A. Brown\u003cbr\u003e 8. Hope in Public Lands: A Conversation\u003cbr\u003e Leisl Carr Childers and Adam M. Sowards\u003cbr\u003e Possibility\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Education of Wallace Stegner\u003cbr\u003e Melody Graulich\u003cbr\u003e 10. Revisiting “The Marks of Human Passage”: Lessons from the Dinosaur and Bears Ears National Monument Controversies\u003cbr\u003e Robert B. Keiter\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Geography of Hope in an Age of Uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e Paul Formisano\u003cbr\u003e 12. The American West as Unlivable Space: Hope, Despair, and Adaptation in an Era of Climate Chaos\u003cbr\u003e Robert M. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Richer for This Sorrow\u003cbr\u003e Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409245217111,"sku":"9781496236173","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496236173.jpg?v=1730506123","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wallace-stegners-unsettled-country-9781496236173","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}