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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Cothern, Lynn. "Becoming Western: Gender and Generation in Mary Hallock Foote's Dual Career," American Civilization, George Washington University, September 1996.
My dissertation examines the career of Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938), who represented the concerns for the relationship with western landscape, generational conflicts, marriage as a means of reconciliation, and the environment in her writings and illustrations. Local color writing, the travel sketch, and the rise of a highly leisured reading class made it possible for her to occupy a place in an increasingly diverse literary culture. The prevailing myth of the west was too rigidly masculine to represent her experience, which she saw as organic, fluid, and generational. Foote is important as an overlooked precursor to writers currently flourishing in the west, writers such as Terry Tempest Williams, who understands that it is gender, generations, and the environment and not cowboys that constitute the essential elements of the western story.
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