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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
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William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521816670
- ISBN-10: 052181667X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 274
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