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

Title
Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers / edited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Hamilton, Amy T.
  • Hillard, Tom J.
Description
xv, 357 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 14-6045
ISBN
  • 9780803254893 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080325489X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780803256859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 080325685X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780803265325 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0803265328 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780803265332 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0803265336 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780803265318 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
  • 080326531X (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014013886
  • 40024181832
OCLC
877851823
Title
Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers / edited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch.
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1600 - 1799
Added Author
Hamilton, Amy T., editor.
Hillard, Tom J., editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40024181832
Research Call Number
JFE 14-6045
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