Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-178) and index.
Contents
The lasting frontier : reinventing America / Eric Heyne --Speech in the wilderness : the ideal discourse of The deerslayer / Louise K. Barnett -- The fictions of Daniel Boone / Mary Lawlor -- Hawthorne, Emerson and the forms of the frontier / James Barszcz -- Frontier violence in the garden of America / Reginald Dyck -- Foreign-born immigrants on the Great Plains frontier in fiction and nonfiction / Linda S. Pickle -- Mary Jemison and the domestication of the American frontier / Susan Scheckel -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie : radical frontier romance / Carol J. Singley -- Southwest of what? : Southwestern literature as a form of frontier literature / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- From the Wild West to the Far North : literary representations of North America's last frontier / Aron Senkpiel -- "Difficult meat" : dialogism and identity in three Native American narratives of contact / James Ruppert.
