Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West / William R. Handley.

Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West /

In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Handley, William R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 132.
Subjects:
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Novelists, American > Homes and haunts > West (U.S.)
Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Western stories > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Family violence in literature.
Women pioneers in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Violence in literature.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Electronic book.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Western unions
  • Turner's rhetorical frontier
  • Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions
  • Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions
  • Unwedded west: Cather's divides
  • Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography
  • Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner.

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