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

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 boundarie...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Amy T.
Otros Autores: Hillard, Tom J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Michael P. Branch -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Hunahpu to Hiawatha -- 2. When the East Was West -- 3. Accommodating Presence -- 4. Captured by Genre -- 5. The Royal Frontier -- 6. Frontier Commonwealths -- 7. The Bad Guys Wear Tricornered Hats -- 8. The Removes of Harriot Stuart -- 9. Contrast and Contradiction -- 10. The Business of Heaven and Earth -- 11. An Eighteenth-Century Narrative of Encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West -- 12. Harmonizing the “Westâ€? 
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