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A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature.

Supernatural in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.

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'The Frontier Club' is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big-game hunting to conservation, immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation - and aligned themselves with cattle kings and 'quality' publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight-of-hand.

American literature --- Western stories --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature.

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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 1800's, 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

Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature.

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"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a white southwestern writer - each of these intercultural writers faces a rite of passage into a new social order. Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment." "In West of the Border Noreen Groover Lape raises issues inherent in American pluralism today by broaching timely concerns about American frontier politics, conceptualizing frontiers as intercultural contact zones, and expanding the boundaries of frontier literary studies by giving voice to minority writers."--Jacket.

American literature --- Women and literature --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Authors, American --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- History. --- Homes and haunts --- History and criticism --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Intellectual life.

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For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives---Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer Lane's I Married a Soldier---to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western e

Frontier and pioneer life --- Women pioneers --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- First person narrative --- American literature --- Women --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex role --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- West (U.S.)