Bibliograph

Reading the West, new essays on the literature of the American West, edited by Michael Kowalewski

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Reading the West, new essays on the literature of the American West, edited by Michael Kowalewski

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliogr. :p. [273]-290. Index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading the West

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40851154

Responsibility statement

edited by Michael Kowalewski

Series statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 98

Sub title

new essays on the literature of the American West

Table Of Contents

Region, power, place / William W. Bevis -- Burros and mustangs: literary evolutionism and the wilderness West / David Rains Wallace -- The Literature of loneliness: understanding the letters and diaries of the American West / Shannon Applegate -- Quoting the wicked wit of the West: frontier reportage and western vernacular / Michael Kowalewski -- Bierstadt's settings, Harte's plots / Lee Mitchell -- Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin, and Edward Abbey / Peter Wild -- Revisionist western classics / Thomas J. Lyon -- Molly's truthtelling, or, Jean Stafford rewrites the western / Susan J. Rosowski -- Borders, frontiers, and mountains: mapping the history of 'U.S. Hispanic literature' / Margaret García Davidson -- The Return of the native: the politics of identity in American Indian fiction of the West / Philip Burnham -- Regionalism makes good: the San Francisco renaissance / Linda Hamalian -- 'The Circle almost circled': some notes on California's fiction / James D. Houston -- Fighting the religion of the present: western motifs in the first wave of Asian American plays / Misha Berson

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