Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Mary Lawlor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
-
- xii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813558212, 9780813528304, 0813528291, 0813528305, 9780585333182, 9780813528298, 9780813558219, 0585333181
- OCLC
- ocm42786247, ocm45843491
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
- Romantic Westernism and the example of Daniel Boone -- Scenes of visionary enchantment: the Lewis and Clark narratives and the Leatherstocking novels -- Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward S. Curtis, and the romance of disappearing -- Importing naturalism to the American West -- Frank Norris and the fiction of the lost West -- Jack London and the politics of evolution -- Stephen Crane's literary tourism -- Willa Cather and the enchantment of difference -- The strangeness of closure
Subjects
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Literature and history -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- Western stories -- History and criticism.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- Wilderness areas in literature.
- Naturalism in literature.
- Closure (Rhetoric)
- West (U.S.) -- In literature.