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Before the West Was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers

Before the West Was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers

Hamilton, Amy T.
Hillard, Tom J.
Branch, Michael P.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 080325685X
ISBN13: 9780803256859
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Nov 1 2014
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 western texts and asks what we mean by western American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.

Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of the American West in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800s, Before the West Was West explores the concrete, meaningful connections between different texts as well as the development of national ideologies and mythologies. Examining pre-nineteenth-century writings that do not fit conceptions of the Wild West or of cowboys, cattle ranching, and the Pony Express, these thirteen essays demonstrate that no single, unified idea or geography defines the American West.

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