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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521816670
Veröffentl:
2015
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Erscheinungsdatum:
26.03.2015
Seiten:
274
Autor:
William R. Handley
Gewicht:
602 g
Format:
235x157x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
William R. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Contemporary Literature and Twentieth Century Literature.
Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.
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 distinctions; 5. Unwedded West: Cather's divides; 6. Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography; 7. Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner; Afterword; Notes; Index.