{"product_id":"faraway-women-and-the-atlantic-monthly-paperback","title":"Faraway Women and the \"Atlantic Monthly\" - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCathryn Halverson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Thomas J. Lyon Award from the Western Literature Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as \"Faraway Women,\" working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base in Boston. Cathryn Halverson surveys these enormously popular \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e contributors, among them a young woman raised in Oregon lumber camps, homesteaders in Wyoming, Idaho, and Alberta, and a world traveler who called Los Angeles and Honolulu home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eFaraway Women and the \"Atlantic Monthly\"\u003c\/i\u003e examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the time with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein. It shows how distant friends, patrons, publishers, and readers inspired, fostered, and consumed the innovative life narratives of these unlikely authors, and it also tracks their own strategies for seizing creative outlets and forging new protocols of public expression. Troubling binary categories of east and west, national and regional, and cosmopolitan and local, the book recasts the coordinates of early twentieth-century American literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCATHRYN HALVERSON is a professor of English at Minot State University. She is author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying House in the American West: Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799370629408,"sku":"9781625344557","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3b9afc76289719e297f609c939f1c615.webp?v=1780812869","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/faraway-women-and-the-atlantic-monthly-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}