The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction

The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Plains writers as Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner, and Bess Streeter Aldrich. Throughout, Diane Dufva Quantic is aware of the region's collective social and cultural history--aware of the immensely fruitful clash between that complex history and Plains myth (such as "Garden of the World" and "Great American Desert"). In the vast and changeable Great Plains, as Wright Morris once remarked, "Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion."

Author: Diane Dufva Quantic
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 12/01/1996
Pages: 203
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.97w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780803288508
Award: Society of Midland Authors Award - Winner

About the Author
Diane Dufva Quantic is an associate professor of English and director of the writing program at Wichita State University.