Amy T. Hamilton is an associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Tom J. Hillard is an associate professor of English at Boise State University. Michael P. Branch is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden.
Amy T. Hamilton is an associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Tom J. Hillard is an associate professor of English at Boise State University. Michael P. Branch is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden.
Amy T. Hamilton is an associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Tom J. Hillard is an associate professor of English at Boise State University. Michael P. Branch is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the editor of Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden.
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Foreword by Michael P. Branch Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconsidering the “When” of the West 1. From Hunahpu to Hiawatha: The Passion of Corn and the Sublimation of Violence in Native American Mythmaking Paul G. Zolbrod 2. When the East Was West: Vinland in the American Imaginary Annette Kolodny 3. Accommodating Presence: Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the Problem of Literary Translation on the American Frontier Cassander L. Smith 4. Captured by Genre: Mary Rowlandson’s Western Imagination on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier John David Miles 5. The Royal Frontier: Colonist and Native Relations in Aphra Behn’s Virginia Rebecca M. Lush 6. Frontier Commonwealths: Violence, Private Interest, and the Public Good in Hennepin’s A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America David J. Peterson 7. 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 8. The Removes of Harriot Stuart: Charlotte Lennox and the Birth of the Western Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon 9. Contrast and Contradiction: The Emergent West in Crèvecoeur’s Regional Theory Tara Penry 10. The Business of Heaven and Earth: Toponymy and the Imperial Idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante Journal of 1776 George English Brooks 11. An Eighteenth-Century Narrative of Encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West: Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri River Robert Woods Sayre 12. Harmonizing the “West”: Jefferson’s Account of Louisiana and American Identity Renaud Contini Contributors Index
Foreword by Michael P. Branch Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconsidering the “When” of the West 1. From Hunahpu to Hiawatha: The Passion of Corn and the Sublimation of Violence in Native American Mythmaking Paul G. Zolbrod 2. When the East Was West: Vinland in the American Imaginary Annette Kolodny 3. Accommodating Presence: Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the Problem of Literary Translation on the American Frontier Cassander L. Smith 4. Captured by Genre: Mary Rowlandson’s Western Imagination on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier John David Miles 5. The Royal Frontier: Colonist and Native Relations in Aphra Behn’s Virginia Rebecca M. Lush 6. Frontier Commonwealths: Violence, Private Interest, and the Public Good in Hennepin’s A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America David J. Peterson 7. 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 8. The Removes of Harriot Stuart: Charlotte Lennox and the Birth of the Western Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon 9. Contrast and Contradiction: The Emergent West in Crèvecoeur’s Regional Theory Tara Penry 10. The Business of Heaven and Earth: Toponymy and the Imperial Idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante Journal of 1776 George English Brooks 11. An Eighteenth-Century Narrative of Encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West: Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri River Robert Woods Sayre 12. Harmonizing the “West”: Jefferson’s Account of Louisiana and American Identity Renaud Contini Contributors Index
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