1st Edition
The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner Myths of the Frontier
By Megan Riley McGilchrist
Copyright 2010
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction: A Changing Landscape Chapter 1: Myth, Environment, Gender Chapter 2: Stegner's West Chapter 3: McCarthy's Western Fictions Conclusion: Across a Great Divide Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Megan McGilchrist is an English teacher at the American School in London.
"McGilchrist's emphasis on understanding frontier myth in relation to the Vietnam War makes an important contribution to western studies."
- Harry F. Thompson, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College
