| Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West Contributor(s): Handley, William R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521093422 ISBN-13: 9780521093422 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.932 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Handley, William R.: - 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. |