Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West

by Mary Lawlor

Book Overview

Ever since the first interactions between Europeans and Native Americans, the "West" has served as a site of complex geographical, social and cultural transformation. American literature is defined, in part, by the central symbols derived from these points of contact. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Western frontier was declared "closed," a demise solidified by Frederick Jackson Turner's influential essay "The Significance of the Frontier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813528305
• ISBN13: 9780813528304
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"