LEADER 04609nam 22009012 450 001 9910450536903321 005 20151005020620.0 010 $a1-107-13451-X 010 $a1-280-16140-X 010 $a0-511-12081-8 010 $a1-139-14837-0 010 $a0-511-06102-1 010 $a0-511-05469-6 010 $a0-511-30829-9 010 $a0-511-48552-2 010 $a0-511-06948-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000018467 035 $a(EBL)217990 035 $a(OCoLC)57247418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10171506 035 $a(PQKB)11786518 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC217990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL217990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10069953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL16140 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000018467 100 $a20090226d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMarriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West /$fWilliam R. Handley$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v132 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-09342-2 311 $a0-521-81667-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-255) and index. 327 $aWestern 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. 330 $aIn Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v132. 517 3 $aMarriage, Violence & the Nation in the American Literary West 606 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNovelists, American$xHomes and haunts$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature 606 $aFamily violence in literature 606 $aWomen pioneers in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIntellectual life 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNovelists, American$xHomes and haunts 615 0$aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life in literature. 615 0$aFamily violence in literature. 615 0$aWomen pioneers in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 676 $a810.9/3278 700 $aHandley$b William R.$014034 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450536903321 996 $aMarriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West$92471244 997 $aUNINA