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020 _a9780803265318
020 _a080326531X
020 _z9780803254893 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z9780803256859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9780803265325
020 _z9780803265332 (mobi)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPS169.W4
_bB44 2014
245 0 0 _aBefore the West was West
_h[electronic resource] :
_bcritical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers /
_cedited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch.
260 _aLincoln :
_bUniversity of Nebraska Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFrom 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aWest (U.S.)
_xIn literature.
650 0 _aFrontier and pioneer life in literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y17th century
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aHillard, Tom J.,
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aHamilton, Amy T.,
_eeditor of compilation.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803265318/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30735
_d30735