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Strategies of reticence : silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion
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ISBN: 0813912628 Year: 1990 Publisher: Charlottesville, VA : University Press of Virginia,

Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West
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ISBN: 110713451X 128016140X 0511120818 1139148370 0511061021 0511054696 0511308299 0511485522 0511069480 9780511061028 9780511069482 9780511120817 9780521816670 052181667X 9786610161409 6610161402 9781139148375 9780511054693 9780511308291 9780511485527 9780521093422 0521093422 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

Stories of old : the imagined west and the crisis of historical symbology in the 1970s
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ISSN: 05622719 ISBN: 9155444369 9789155444365 Year: 1999 Volume: 106 Publisher: Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell,

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