04609nam 22009012 450 991078328370332120151005020620.01-107-13451-X1-280-16140-X0-511-12081-81-139-14837-00-511-06102-10-511-05469-60-511-30829-90-511-48552-20-511-06948-0(CKB)1000000000018467(EBL)217990(OCoLC)57247418(SSID)ssj0000198287(PQKBManifestationID)11172232(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198287(PQKBWorkID)10171506(PQKB)11786518(UkCbUP)CR9780511485527(MiAaPQ)EBC217990(Au-PeEL)EBL217990(CaPaEBR)ebr10069953(CaONFJC)MIL16140(EXLCZ)99100000000001846720090226d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMarriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West /William R. Handley[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;132Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-09342-2 0-521-81667-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-255) and index.Western unions -- Turner's rhetorical frontier -- Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions -- Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions -- Unwedded west: Cather's divides -- Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography -- Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner.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 scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;132.Marriage, Violence & the Nation in the American Literary WestAmerican literatureWest (U.S.)History and criticismNovelists, AmericanHomes and hauntsWest (U.S.)Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureWestern storiesHistory and criticismFrontier and pioneer life in literatureFamily violence in literatureWomen pioneers in literatureMarriage in literatureViolence in literatureWest (U.S.)Intellectual lifeWest (U.S.)In literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Novelists, AmericanHomes and hauntsDomestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Western storiesHistory and criticism.Frontier and pioneer life in literature.Family violence in literature.Women pioneers in literature.Marriage in literature.Violence in literature.810.9/3278Handley William R.14034UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910783283703321Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West3738541UNINA