Book: Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
Author: William R. Handley
Pages: 276
Format: pdf
Language: English
ISBN10: 0521093422
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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