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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman
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
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman
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
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Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / / Jean Barman
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
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
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Exploding the Western [[electronic resource] ] : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / / Sara L. Spurgeon
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
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Exploding the Western : myths of empire on the postmodern frontier / / Sara L. Spurgeon
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
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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
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
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