Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers

Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers /

Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 "western" texts and asks what we mean by "western" American literature in the first place and when that designation originated. Calling into question the implicit temporal boundarie...

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Other Authors: Hamilton, Amy T. (Editor), Hillard, Tom J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1600-1799
American literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Literature
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Hunahpu to Hiawatha : the passion of corn and the sublimation of violence in native American mythmaking / Paul G. Zolbrod
  • When the East was West : Vinland in the American imaginary / Annette Kolodny
  • Accommodating presence : Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the problem of literary translation on the American frontier / Cassander L. Smith
  • Captured by genre : Mary Rowlandson's Western imagination on the nineteenth-century frontier / John David Miles
  • The royal frontier : colonist and native relations in Aphra Behn's Virginia / Rebecca M. Lush
  • Frontier commonwealths : violence, private interest, and the public good in Hennepin's A new discovery of a vast country in America / David J. Peterson
  • The bad guys wear tricornered hats : the Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II hide painting in Spanish and French colonial literature / Gordon M. Sayre
  • The removes of Harriot Stuart : Charlotte Lennox and the birth of the western / Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon
  • Contrast and contradiction : the emergent West in Crèvecoeur's regional theory / Tara Penry
  • The business of heaven and earth : toponymy and the imperial idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante journal of 1776 / George English Brooks
  • An eighteenth-century narrative of encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West : Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri river / Robert Woods Sayre
  • Harmonizing the "West": Jefferson's account of Louisiana and American identity / Renaud Contini.

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