Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521816670 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 08/15/2002 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #132 |
Pages: | 274 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d) |
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