Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

by William R. Handley

Book Overview

In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093422
• ISBN13: 9780521093422
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"