Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
Original title: Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West
earliest edition we have, 2002 Cambridge University Press, 2002 261 pages
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
"In Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley argues that although recent scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters the optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic vio...
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