Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West (repost)
William R. Handley "Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West"
Cambridge University Press | 2002-09-02 | ISBN: 052181667X | 274 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Cambridge University Press | 2002-09-02 | ISBN: 052181667X | 274 pages | PDF | 2 MB
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.