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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
UNP - Nebraska,
2014.
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| Summary: | 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 boundaries of the "American West" in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800s, Before the West Was West explores the concrete, meaningful connections between different texts as well as the development of national ideologies and mythologies. Examining pre-nineteenth-century writ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (683 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780803265325 0803265328 |