Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West / William R. Handley.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 132.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 0511061021
- 9780511061028
- 0511069480
- 9780511069482
- 0511120818
- 9780511120817
- 9786610161409
- 6610161402
- American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
- Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
- Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Western stories -- History and criticism
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life
- Family violence in literature
- Women pioneers in literature
- West (U.S.) -- In literature
- Marriage in literature
- Violence in literature
- PS271
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | PS271 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocm57247418\ |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Western unions -- Turner's rhetorical frontier -- Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions -- Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions -- Unwedded west: Cather's divides -- Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography -- Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner.
In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
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