Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers / / edited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (683 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/002 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 17th century - History and criticism
American literature - 18th century - History and criticism Frontier and pioneer life in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8032-6532-8
0-8032-6531-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From 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 Domínguez-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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458929403321 |
Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers / / edited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (683 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/002 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 17th century - History and criticism
American literature - 18th century - History and criticism Frontier and pioneer life in literature |
ISBN |
0-8032-6532-8
0-8032-6531-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From 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 Domínguez-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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791296903321 |
Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Before the West was West : critical essays on pre-1800 literature of the American frontiers / / edited and with an introduction by Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard ; foreword by Michael P. Branch |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (683 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/002 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 17th century - History and criticism
American literature - 18th century - History and criticism Frontier and pioneer life in literature |
ISBN |
0-8032-6532-8
0-8032-6531-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From 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 Domínguez-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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825698503321 |
Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman |
Autore | Barman Jean <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina | 818.5209 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, Canadian - 20th century
Journalists - United States Canadians - United States Frontier and pioneer life in literature Editors - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-02293-8
9786612022937 1-4426-7327-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Writing on the Frontier -- 2. A British Columbian Inheritance -- 3. Border Crossing -- 4. Beyond Journalism -- 5. Storytelling -- 6. Engaging the Frontier -- 7. Private Woman -- 8. Old and New Directions -- 9. Return to the British Columbia Frontier -- 10. No More Private Woman -- 11. Almost Famous -- 12. Reflections -- Appendix: Chronology of the Life of Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455809503321 |
Barman Jean <1939-> | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman |
Autore | Barman Jean <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina | 818.5209 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, Canadian - 20th century
Journalists - United States Canadians - United States Frontier and pioneer life in literature Editors - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-02293-8
9786612022937 1-4426-7327-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Writing on the frontier -- A British Columbian inheritance -- Border crossing -- Beyond journalism -- Storytelling -- Engaging the frontier -- Private woman -- Old and new directions -- Return to the British Columbia frontier -- No more private woman -- Almost famous -- Reflections -- Appendix: Chronology of the life of Constance Lindsay Skinner. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780687103321 |
Barman Jean <1939-> | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman |
Autore | Barman Jean <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
Disciplina | 818.5209 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, Canadian - 20th century
Journalists - United States Canadians - United States Frontier and pioneer life in literature Editors - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-02293-8
9786612022937 1-4426-7327-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Writing on the frontier -- A British Columbian inheritance -- Border crossing -- Beyond journalism -- Storytelling -- Engaging the frontier -- Private woman -- Old and new directions -- Return to the British Columbia frontier -- No more private woman -- Almost famous -- Reflections -- Appendix: Chronology of the life of Constance Lindsay Skinner. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813333803321 |
Barman Jean <1939-> | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploding the Western [[electronic resource] ] : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / / Sara L. Spurgeon |
Autore | Spurgeon Sara L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3278 |
Collana | Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism
American literature - Southwestern States - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Western stories - History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) - West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life in literature Imperialism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-299-05261-4
1-60344-592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456719303321 |
Spurgeon Sara L | ||
College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploding the Western [[electronic resource] ] : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / / Sara L. Spurgeon |
Autore | Spurgeon Sara L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3278 |
Collana | Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism
American literature - Southwestern States - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Western stories - History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) - West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life in literature Imperialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-299-05261-4
1-60344-592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781283503321 |
Spurgeon Sara L | ||
College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploding the Western : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / / Sara L. Spurgeon |
Autore | Spurgeon Sara L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3278 |
Collana | Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism
American literature - Southwestern States - History and criticism American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Western stories - History and criticism Postmodernism (Literature) - West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life in literature Imperialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-299-05261-4
1-60344-592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Foundation of Empire -- Pledged in Blood -- The Acts of Their Own Hands -- Decolonizing Imperialism -- Sanctioned Narratives and the (Non)Innocent Triumph of the Savage War -- Necessary Difference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828178603321 |
Spurgeon Sara L | ||
College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock |
Autore | Hallock Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 973/.07/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography Environmental policy - United States - History Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History Frontier and pioneer life in literature Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism Environmental literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8078-6165-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450702903321 |
Hallock Thomas | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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