Frontier : American literature and the American West /

Fussell, Edwin S.,

Frontier : American literature and the American West / by Edwin Fussell. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1965. - 1 online resource (xv, 450 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Sketches of Western adventure ; The scarlet letter ; Neutral territory -- Edgar Allan Poe -- South and West ; Narratives of exploration and discovery -- Henry David Thoreau -- Essential West ; Walden : the pioneer ; Walden : the frontier -- Herman Melville -- Early Western travels ; Moby-Dick ; Disputed frontier ; The confidence-man -- Indian summer of the literary West -- Thoreau's unwritten epic ; Hawthorne's last stand ; Melville as poet -- Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.



9781400872206




American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS169 / .F766 1965