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Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The Pioneer; Walden: The Frontier; Chapter 5: Herman Melville; Early Western Travels; Moby-Dick; The Disputed Frontier; The Confidence-Man; Chapter 6: Indian Summer of the Literary West; Thoreau's Unwritten Epic; Hawthorne's Last Stand; Melville as Poet; Chapter 7: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; IndexOriginally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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

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Historical fiction, American --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) --- History and criticism. --- Critique et interprétation --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation

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Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel 'Mason & Dixon' marked a deep shift in Pynchon's career and in American letters in general. All of Pynchon's novels had been socially and politically aware, marked by social criticism and a profound questioning of American values. They have carried the labels of satire and black humor, and 'Pynchonesque' has come to be associated with erudition, a playful style, anachronisms and puns - and an interest in scientific theories, popular culture, paranoia, and the 'military-industrial complex.' In short, Pynchon's novels were the sine qua non of postmodernism; 'Mason & Dixon' went further, using the same style, wit, and erudition to re-create an 18th century when 'America' was being formed as both place and idea. Pynchon's focus on the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line and the governmental and scientific entities responsible for it makes a clearer statement than any of his previous novels about the slavery and imperialism at the heart of the Enlightenment, as he levels a dark and hilarious critique at this America. This volume of new essays studies the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. It offers fresh thinking about Pynchon's work, as the contributors take up the linkages between the 18th and 20th centuries in studies that are as concerned with culture as with the literary text itself. Contributors: Mitchum Huehls, Brian Thill, Colin Clarke, Pedro Garcia-Caro, Dennis Lensing, Justin M. Scott Coe, Ian Copestake, Frank Palmeri. Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds is Professor and Chair of the English Department at SUNY Brockport.

Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- Landontginners en pioniersleven in de literatuur --- Scientists in literature --- Vie des défricheurs et des pionniers dans la littérature --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- United States --- Literature and history --- Biographical fiction [American ] --- History and criticism --- Mason, Charles --- In literature --- Dixon, Jeremiah --- Biographical fiction, American --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Scientists in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Mason, Charles, --- In literature. --- American biographical fiction --- American fiction --- 18th Century. --- America. --- Culture. --- Enlightenment Critique. --- Enlightenment. --- Imperialism. --- Literary Text. --- Mason & Dixon. --- Pynchon. --- Slavery.

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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.

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This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.

Pioniersvrouwen in de literatuur --- Pionnières dans la littérature --- Women pioneers in literature --- 820 "19" --- 820 <71> --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Canadian fiction --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women pioneers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- History and criticism --- Marlatt, Daphne. --- Shields, Carol. --- Swan, Susan, --- Canadian fiction [English ] --- 20th century --- Women authors --- Women pioneers --- Canada --- Feminist literature --- Shields, Carol --- Marlatt, Daphne. Ana Historic --- Swan, Susan. The Biggest Modern Woman of the World --- Canadian fiction (English) --- Canadian-English novel --- Canadian literature --- English-Canadian fiction --- English fiction --- Femmes écrivains canadiennes de langue anglaise --- IDENTITE FEMININE --- IDENTITE --- Identité (psychologie) --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- Postcolonialisme --- CANADA --- Dans la littérature