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Title Desert, garden, margin, range : literature on the American frontier / edited by Eric Heyne.

Imprint New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.93278 D457    ---  Available
Description v, 182 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Added Author Heyne, Eric.
ISBN 0805790314 (pb : alk. paper)
0805790276 (hc : alk. paper)

 
    
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