| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

Exploring Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary Austin. Edited by Melody Graulich and Elizabeth Klimasmith. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999. xxiv + 311 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $41.95.)

The 14 essays included in Exploring Lost Borders show why Mary Austin's work was important when she first published and why it continues to be important now. This first collection of critical essays on her work indicates the range and vitality of Austin scholarship, as well as its relevance for a number of disciplines. The collection offers stimulating arguments for those interested in gender studies, western American studies, border studies, race studies, environmental studies, and class studies. 1

This collection appears just as Austin's work has attained a significant audience. Several of her works are back in print, other reprints are under way, and articles and dissertations that address her work abound. Given this resurgence of interest in Austin, it would have been easy for this first collection of essays to offer reprinted essays by established scholars in the field. But taking as their cue Ansel Adams's assertion in 1930 that Mary Austin "is a 'future' person--one who will, a century from now, appear as a writer of major stature in the complex matrix of American culture" (p. xi), editors Graulich and Klimasmith have had the good sense to look to the newest generation of scholars for most of these essays. The result is, indeed, forward looking. . . .

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