Birthing A Nation: Gender, Creativity, And The West In American Literature; Author: Rosowski, Susan J.; Hardback; Book

Author: Rosowski, Susan J.
Hardback; Book
242 pages
Published: December 1999
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803239351

Now that nearly everyone has rejected the myths of conflict between wilderness and civilization and the hero of rugged individualism as the foundations of the Winning of the West, Rosowski (English, U. of Nebraska) proposes a female model of creativity as an alternative cultural history. She traces the birth metaphor through three and half centuries of American letters then follows fourauthors on a multigenerational journey from Margaret Fuller in 1843 through Willa Cather and Jean Stafford to Marilynne Robinson.Now that nearly everyone has rejected the myths of conflict between wilderness and civilization and the hero of rugged individualism as the foundations of the Winning of the West, Rosowski (English, U. of Nebraska) proposes a female model of creativity as an alternative cultural history. She traces