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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, Amy T., editor.

Hillard, Tom J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

American literature--17th century--History and criticism.

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Frontier and pioneer life in literature.

Literature.

West United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803254893

080325489X

9780803256859

080325685X

OCLC:

877851823