| Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie Contributor(s): Ketcham, Sallie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415820200 ISBN-13: 9780415820202 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014012611 |
| Series: Routledge Historical Americans |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.57 lbs) 170 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children's literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota, blended memoir and fiction into a vivid depiction of nineteenth-century settler life that continues to shape many Americans' understanding of the country's past. Poised between fiction and fact, literature and history, Wilder's life is a fascinating window on the American West. Placing Wilder's life and work in historical context, and including previously unpublished material from the Wilder archives, Sallie Ketcham introduces students to domestic frontier life, the conflict between Native Americans and infringing white populations, and the West in public memory and imagination. |