Wallace Stegner and the Western Environment: Hydraulics, Placelessness, and (Lack of) Identity

This article is chiefly concerned with Wallace Stegner’s ideas of aridity as the key to the understanding of the history and culture of the American West. It first examines the arguments of some major books published in the 1980s that helped strengthen Stegner’s conviction that the West was heading...

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Main Author: Fredrik Chr. Brøgger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2011-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9302