Reading the West : new essays on the literature of the American West /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
98. |
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Table of Contents:
- Region, power, place / William W. Bevis
- Burros and mustangs: literary evolutionism and the wilderness West / David Rains Wallace
- The Literature of loneliness: understanding the letters and diaries of the American West / Shannon Applegate
- Quoting the wicked wit of the West: frontier reportage and western vernacular / Michael Kowalewski
- Bierstadt's settings, Harte's plots / Lee Mitchell
- Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey / Peter Wild
- Revisionist western classics / Thomas J. Lyon
- Molly's truthtelling, or, Jean Stafford rewrites the western / Susan J. Rosowski
- Borders, frontiers, and mountains: mapping the history of 'U.S. Hispanic literature' / Margaret García Davidson
- The Return of the native: the politics of identity in American Indian fiction of the West / Philip Burnham
- Regionalism makes good: the San Francisco renaissance / Linda Hamalian
- 'The Circle almost circled': some notes on California's fiction / James D. Houston
- Fighting the religion of the present: western motifs in the first wave of Asian American plays / Misha Berson.