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Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West
- Title
- Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West / Mary Lawlor.
- Author
- Lawlor, Mary, 1949-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 224 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Western stories > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Naturalism in literature
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Closure (Rhetoric)
- West (U.S.) > In literature
- American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
- Literature and history > West (U.S.) > History
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- Wilderness areas in literature
- Historical fiction, American > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.
- Contents
- Romantic Westernism and the example of Daniel Boone -- Scenes of visionary enchantment: the Lewis and Clark narratives and the Leatherstocking novels -- Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward S. Curtis, and the romance of disappearing -- Importing naturalism to the American West -- Frank Norris and the fiction of the lost West -- Jack London and the politics of evolution -- Stephen Crane's literary tourism -- Willa Cather and the enchantment of difference -- The strangeness of closure.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-934
- ISBN
- 0813528291 (alk. paper)
- 0813528305 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99056541
- OCLC
- 42786247
- Author
- Lawlor, Mary, 1949-
- Title
- Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West / Mary Lawlor.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-934