TY - BOOK AU - Hillard,Tom J. AU - Hamilton,Amy T. ED - Project Muse. TI - Before the West was West: critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers SN - 9780803265318 AV - PS169.W4 B44 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Frontier and pioneer life in literature KW - American literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 17th century KW - West (U.S.) KW - In literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; From Hunahpu to Hiawatha : the passion of corn and the sublimation of violence in native American mythmaking / Paul G. Zolbrod -- When the East was West : Vinland in the American imaginary / Annette Kolodny -- Accommodating presence : Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the problem of literary translation on the American frontier / Cassander L. Smith -- Captured by genre : Mary Rowlandson's Western imagination on the nineteenth-century frontier / John David Miles -- The royal frontier : colonist and native relations in Aphra Behn's Virginia / Rebecca M. Lush -- Frontier commonwealths : violence, private interest, and the public good in Hennepin's A new discovery of a vast country in America / David J. Peterson -- The bad guys wear tricornered hats : the Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II hide painting in Spanish and French colonial literature / Gordon M. Sayre -- The removes of Harriot Stuart : Charlotte Lennox and the birth of the western / Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon -- Contrast and contradiction : the emergent West in Crevecoeur's regional theory / Tara Penry -- The business of heaven and earth : toponymy and the imperial idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante journal of 1776 / George English Brooks -- An eighteenth-century narrative of encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West : Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri river / Robert Woods Sayre -- Harmonizing the "West": Jefferson's account of Louisiana and American identity / Renaud Contini UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803265318/ ER -