Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

ISBN-13: 9780521093422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str.

William R. Handley

Opis

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.