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Series
Linguae and litterae volume Volume 41
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? In this study, Hoyer draws on his own knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Austin's creation of the "mythology of the American continent" she so valued. Austin lived in and wrote about "the land of little rain," semiarid and arid parts of California and Nevada that were home...