LEADER 04203nam 2200661 450 001 9910825698503321 005 20230803222122.0 010 $a0-8032-6532-8 010 $a0-8032-6531-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001346326 035 $a(EBL)1775253 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334332 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11739871 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334332 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11413336 035 $a(PQKB)11225471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1775253 035 $a(OCoLC)889813238 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1775253 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10921137 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL639821 035 $a(OCoLC)923709496 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001346326 100 $a20140903h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBefore the West was West $ecritical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers /$fedited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (683 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8032-5489-X 311 $a1-322-08570-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom Hunahpu to Hiawatha : the passion of corn and the sublimation of violence in native American mythmaking / Paul G. Zolbrod -- When the East was West : Vinland in the American imaginary / Annette Kolodny -- Accommodating presence : Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the problem of literary translation on the American frontier / Cassander L. Smith -- Captured by genre : Mary Rowlandson's Western imagination on the nineteenth-century frontier / John David Miles -- The royal frontier : colonist and native relations in Aphra Behn's Virginia / Rebecca M. Lush -- Frontier commonwealths : violence, private interest, and the public good in Hennepin's A new discovery of a vast country in America / David J. Peterson -- The bad guys wear tricornered hats : the Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II hide painting in Spanish and French colonial literature / Gordon M. Sayre -- The removes of Harriot Stuart : Charlotte Lennox and the birth of the western / Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon -- Contrast and contradiction : the emergent West in Crevecoeur's regional theory / Tara Penry -- The business of heaven and earth : toponymy and the imperial idyll in the Domi?nguez-Escalante journal of 1776 / George English Brooks -- An eighteenth-century narrative of encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West : Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri river / Robert Woods Sayre -- Harmonizing the "West": Jefferson's account of Louisiana and American identity / Renaud Contini. 330 $aBefore 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 boundaries of the "American West" in literature, a literature often viewed as having commenced only at the beginning of the 1800's, Before the West Was West explores the concrete, meaningful connections between different texts as well as the development of national ideologies and mythologies. Examining pre-nineteenth-century 606 $aAmerican literature$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life in literature. 676 $a810.9/002 702 $aHamilton$b Amy T. 702 $aHillard$b Tom J. 702 $aBranch$b Michael P. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825698503321 996 $aBefore the West was West$93989459 997 $aUNINA