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Pioneer Girl - The Revised Texts (Hardcover)
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Pioneer Girl - The Revised Texts (Hardcover)
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For generations, the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder have defined the
American frontier and the pioneer experience for the public at
large. Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts presents three typescripts
of Wilder's original Pioneer Girl manuscript in an examination of
the process through which she and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane,
transformed her autobiography into the much-loved Little House
series. As the women polished the narrative from draft to draft, a
picture emerges of the working relationship between the women, of
the lives they lived, and of the literary works they created.
Editor Nancy Tystad Koupal and other editors of the Pioneer Girl
Project provide a meticulous study of the Wilder/Lane partnership
as Wilder's autobiography undergoes revision, and the women
redevelop and expand portions of it into Wilder's successful
children's and young adult novels and into Lane's bestselling adult
novels in the 1930s. The three revised texts of Pioneer Girl, set
side by side, showcase the intertwined processes of writing and
editing and the contributions of writer and editor. In background
essays and annotations, Koupal and her team of editors provide
historical context and explore the ways in which Wilder or Lane
changed and reused the material. Wilder and Lane's partnership has
been the subject of longstanding speculation, but Pioneer Girl: The
Revised Texts is the first work to explore the women's relationship
by examining the evolution of surviving manuscripts. Showcasing
differences in the texts and offering numerous additional documents
and handwritten emendations, the editors create a rich resource for
scholars to use in assessing the editorial and writing principles,
choices, and reasoning that Lane employed to shape the manuscripts
for publication. Readers can follow along as Wilder grows into a
novelist that "no depression could stop." The New York Times best
seller, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (2014), edited by
Pamela Smith Hill, gave the general reader easy access to Wilder's
original account for the first time, but that book only scratched
the surface of available textual and archival materials.
Ultimately, the editors of Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts employ
the rich resource of letters between Wilder and her publisher and
between Wilder and Lane, along with rough drafts and false starts
of the Little House books, to inform scholars and readers about the
original manuscript's metamorphosis into novels and about the
intriguing editorial relationship between Wilder and Lane. Pioneer
Girl: The Revised Texts deepens our understanding of Laura Ingalls
Wilder and the process through which she would ultimately become an
icon of young adult literature.
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