Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Handley explains that once its enemies are gone! imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships. Zusammenfassung Handley explains that once its enemies are gone! imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: William R. Handley, William R. (University of Southern Califo Handley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521093422
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09342-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies