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Regeneration through violence : the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860
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- Creator
- by Richard Slotkin
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [First edition]
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1973]
- ©1973
- Physical Details
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- viii, 670 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0819540552, 9780819540553, 0819560340, 9780819560346
- OCLC
- ocm00333612
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-622).
- Myth and literature in the New World -- Cannibals and Christians: European vs. American Indian culture -- Home in the heart of darkness: the origin of the Indian War narratives (1625-1682) -- Israel in Babylon: the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700) -- A palisade of language: captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693) -- The hunting of the beast: initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725) -- The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765) -- A gallery of types: the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785) -- Narrative into myth: the emergence of a hero (1784) -- Evolution of the national hero: farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855) -- Society and solitude: the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825) -- The fragmented image: the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850) -- Man without a cross: the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841) -- A pyramid of skulls