Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

William R. Handley

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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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 276 pages · 9780521093422
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511485527
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2004 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511054693
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139148375
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 275 pages · 9781280161407
Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 261 pages
Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511061028
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West edition · 2002 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511069482

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