Mary Austin, Lost Borders

Mark T. Hoyer (University of California, Davis)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1909

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

In 1909, following the publication of several less successful efforts in various genres—children's stories (The Basket Woman, 1904), historical romance (Isidro, 1905), historical documentary (The Flock, 1906), and a work of social commentary in the form of a novel (Santa Lucia, 1908)—Austin returned to the form that had first brought her critical attention. Lost Borders, a collection of fourteen stories and sketches about “the land of little rain”, focuses even more insistently than her earlier work on the human inhabitants of California's desert region and on the means by which the land shapes both character and destiny. In the first sketch, “The Land”, in one of Austin's most famous …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

1080 words

Citation: Hoyer, Mark T.. "Lost Borders". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 June 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3858, accessed 20 April 2024.]

Save this article