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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 132

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052181667X
ISBN13: 9780521816670
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.

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