{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-literature-and-culture-of-the-american-west-paperback-softback-9781118652510","title":"A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118652510","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicolas S. Witschi (Edited by), N Witschi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118652510, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Imagining the West 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicolas S. Witschi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Regions and Histories 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780–1850 13\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Watts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter J. Blodgett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTara Penry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A History of American Women’s Western Books, 1833–1928 63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNina Baym\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel Worden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains 98\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Naramore Maher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place 115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eO. Alan Weltzien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature 130\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Heyne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHsuan L. Hsu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael K. Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race 177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn L. Escobedo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Writing the Indigenous West 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathleen Washburn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-wides, and McMansions 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Postcolonial West 229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlex Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest 244\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKrista Comer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Varieties and Forms 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 What We Talk About When We Talk About Western Art 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian W. Dippie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 “All Hat and No Cattle”: Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth-Century Western American Fiction 281\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Scharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry 297\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Barney Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 “The Wind Blew Them Away”: Folksinging the West, 1880–1930 316\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Fenimore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Autobiography 336\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGioia Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Housing the American West: Western Women’s Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond 353\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCathryn Halverson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism 367\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHal Crimmel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Detective Fiction 380\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicolas S. 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