Title Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West / Mary Lawlor

Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Closure (Rhetoric) Frontier and pioneer life in literature Historical fiction, American Literature Literature and history Naturalism in literature Western stories Wilderness areas in literature SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- In literature Subject West United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99056541 ISBN 0585333181 9780585333182 0813558212 9780813558219

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