ISBN: 9780813006727

"Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects,… Mehr…

"Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, themes, voice. The appraisals of her accomplishments are thoughtfully balanced and fair. He justly believes that the books transcend the limits of locale, speaking a language which is more than dialect. The scholarly and critical integrity of this study is informed by an awareness of these larger issues and by an understanding of pertinent American traditions.""American Literature" "Literary critics would have more readers if their books were all as interesting as Bigelow's."--"Miami Herald" "Bigelow writes with a gusto refreshing to encounter . . . immensely readable.""The Mississippi Quarterly" "Frontier Eden, " the first extensive study of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, tells with lively warmth of her love affair with Florida and with the Florida cracker people who were here chief subjects. The book contains never-published letters to, from, and about Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Glasgow, and Max Perkins. Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Bigelow, Gordon E., University Press of Florida<

ISBN: 0813006724

Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, theme… Mehr…

Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, themes, voice. The appraisals of her accomplishments are thoughtfully balanced and fair. He justly believes that the books transcend the limits of locale, speaking a language which is more than dialect. The scholarly and critical integrity of this study is informed by an awareness of these larger issues and by an understanding of pertinent American traditions." American Literature "Literary critics would have more readers if their books were all as interesting as Bigelow's."-- Miami Herald "Bigelow writes with a gusto refreshing to encounter . . . immensely readable." The Mississippi Quarterly Frontier Eden, the first extensive study of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, tells with lively warmth of her love affair with Florida and with the Florida cracker people who were here chief subjects. The book contains never-published letters to, from, and about Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Glasgow, and Max Perkins. arts and literature,authors,biographies,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,specific groups,women Biographies, University Press of Florida<

ISBN: 0813006724

Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, theme… Mehr…

Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, themes, voice. The appraisals of her accomplishments are thoughtfully balanced and fair. He justly believes that the books transcend the limits of locale, speaking a language which is more than dialect. The scholarly and critical integrity of this study is informed by an awareness of these larger issues and by an understanding of pertinent American traditions."American Literature?"Literary critics would have more readers if their books were all as interesting as Bigelow's."-Miami Herald"Bigelow writes with a gusto refreshing to encounter . . . immensely readable."The Mississippi QuarterlyFrontier Eden, the first extensive study of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, tells with lively warmth of her love affair with Florida and with the Florida cracker people who were here chief subjects. The book contains never-published letters to, from, and about Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Glasgow, and Max Perkins. arts and literature,authors,biographies,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,specific groups,women Biographies, University Press of Florida<

ISBN: 9780813006727

"Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, them… Mehr…

"Bigelow skillfully details Marjorie Rawlings' literary career, from failure to success to relative neglect, with illuminating discussion of her struggles to find her right subjects, themes, voice. The appraisals of her accomplishments are thoughtfully balanced and fair. He justly believes that the books transcend the limits of locale, speaking a language which is more than dialect. The scholarly and critical integrity of this study is informed by an awareness of these larger issues and by an understanding of pertinent American traditions.""American Literature" "Literary critics would have more readers if their books were all as interesting as Bigelow's."--"Miami Herald" "Bigelow writes with a gusto refreshing to encounter . . . immensely readable.""The Mississippi Quarterly" "Frontier Eden, " the first extensive study of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, tells with lively warmth of her love affair with Florida and with the Florida cracker people who were here chief subjects. The book contains never-published letters to, from, and about Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Glasgow, and Max Perkins. Media >, [PU: University of Florida Press]<