Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West.
Title:
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West.
Author:
Handley, William R.
ISBN:
9781139148375
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Series:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; v.132
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Western unions -- ALLEGORIZING NATION -- RETROSPECTION AND FICTIONS OF IMMEDIACY -- LITERARY NARRATIONS OF HISTORICAL CAUSALITY -- CHAPTER TWO Turnerfs rhetorical frontier -- CHAPTER THREE Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions -- CHAPTER FOUR Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions -- PERSECUTION AND PRURIENCE -- PECULIAR PEOPLE: WHITENESS, CHRISTIANITY, WOMANHOOD -- IMPERIALIST PARANOIA -- CHAPTER FIVE Unwedded West: Cather's divides -- DISCOVERING THE WEST -- OBSCURE DESTINY -- A NATION, HIS DREAM -- CHAPTER SIX Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography -- TTHE CASUALTIES OF RETROSPECTION -- THE DESIGNS OF THE "REAL" WEST -- CHAPTER SIX Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner -- Afterword -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 WESTERN UNIONS -- 2 TURNER'S RHETORICAL FRONTIER -- 3 MARRYING FOR RACE AND NATION: WISTER'S OMNISCIENCE AND OMISSIONS -- 4 POLYGAMY AND EMPIRE: GREY'S DISTINCTINOS -- 5 UNWEDDED WEST: CATHER'S DIVIDES -- 6 ACCIDENT AND DESTINY: FITZGERALD'S FANTASTIC GEOGRAPHY -- 7 PROMISES AND BETRAYALS: JOAN DIDION AND WALLACE STEGNER -- AFTERWORD -- Index.
Abstract:
Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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