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A Harsh and Hostile Land: Edward Abbey's Politics and the Great American Desert

Much of contemporary American environmental thought, implicitly or explicitly, circles around the literary corpus of Edward Abbey in search of its most radical aesthetic, ethical, and political perspectives. Whether this inspiration is drawn from Abbey's Road, The Monkey Wrench Gang, A Fool's Progress, Desert Solitaire, Good News, Down the River, Black Sun, or Hayduke Lives! Abbey's fictional work holds the collective life of modern suburban America up against the discipline of surviving alone in the desert. In the extremes of that harsh and hostile land, he finds sublime inspiration rather than bleak desolation. Consciously anarchistic, extremist, and individualistic in his...