Bøker av Heike Schaefer

This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key American authors of the past two centuries created new literary forms by reworking the immediacy effects of photography, film, and TV. It will appeal to scholars of American literature.

Considering unpublished materials and the full range of Mary Austin's literary and theoretical writing, this text presents Austin as a significant early 20th-century author who reworked the traditions of nature writing and women's regionalism to envision a sustainable and democratic American culture.