The Frontier Experience and the American Dream

, by Mogen, David; Busby, Mark; Bryant, Paul

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ISBN: 9780890963982 | 0890963983
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/1989

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Beyond the mountains that separated the English colonies from the Great Plains lay the frontier, which produced a set of images, attitudes, and assumptions that have shaped a peculiarly American literary heritage. The eighteen scholars represented here focus on the importance of frontier mythology to many American writers.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Frontier Writing as a "Great Tradition" of American Literature	p. 3
General
The Frontier Archetype and the Myth of America: Patterns That Shape the American Dream	p. 15
Our Pursuit of Loneliness: An Alternative to This Paradigm	p. 31
Forging an American Style: The Romance-Novel and Magical Realism as Response to the Frontier and Wilderness Experiences	p. 50
Period Studies
Expanding the Canon of American Renaissance Frontier Writers: Emily Dickinson's "Glimmering Frontier"	p. 67
Imaginative Safety Valves: Frontier Themes in the Literature of the Gilded Age	p. 87
The Significance of the Frontier in Contemporary American Fiction	p. 95
Regional Adaptations
Frontier Yeoman versus Cavalier: The Dilemma of Antebellum Southern Fiction	p. 107
The Western Novel as Literature of the Last Frontier	p. 120
Golden State: A Demanding Paradise, an Enduring Frontier	p. 132
Multicultural Perspectives
Homeward Bound: Wilderness and Frontier in American Indian Literature	p. 149
La frontera, Aztlan, el barrio: Frontiers in Chicano Literature	p. 159
An American Chicano in King Arthur's Court	p. 180
"O Beautiful for Spacious Guys": An Essay on the "Legitimate Inclinations of the Sexes"	p. 186
Genres
Nature Writing and the American Frontier	p. 205
"Home Sweet Home": Deconstructing the Masculine Myth of the Frontier in Modern American Drama	p. 217
Western Film and the American Dream: The Cinematic Frontier of Sam Peckinpah	p. 226
The Lost Frontier: American Myth in the Literature of the Vietnam War	p. 236
Frontiers in Space	p. 248
Contributors	p. 264
Index	p. 267
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