{"product_id":"reading-the-west-new-essays-on-the-literature-of-the-american-west-paperback-9780521565592","title":"Reading the West; New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Paperback) 9780521565592","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Essays on the Literature of the American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1996 collection of essays exploring western American literature and the West in the American imagination.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Kowalewski (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521565592, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 23 February 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a useful, much needed, and provacative collection of essays dealing with the American West.\"   Western American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Michael Kowalewski\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Nature and Place in Western Writing: 1. Region, power, place William W. Bevis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Burros and Mustangs: literary evolutionism and the wilderness west David Rains Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Reimagining the American Frontier: 3.The Literature of loneliness: understanding the letters and diaries of the American West Shannon Applegate\u003cbr\u003e 4. Quoting the wicked wit of the West: Frontier reportage and Western vernacular Michael Kowalewski\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bierstadt's settings, Harte's plots Lee Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Modern Western Revisions: 6. Sentimentalism in the American Southwest: John C. Van Dyke, Mary Austin and Edward Abbey Peter Wild\u003cbr\u003e 7. Revisionist Western classics Thomas J. Lyon\u003cbr\u003e 8. Molly's truthtelling, or Jean Stafford rewrites the Western Susan J. Rosowski\u003cbr\u003e 9. Borders, frontiers and mountains: mapping the history of 'US Hispanic Literature' Margaret Garcia Davidson\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Contemporary Western Writing: A Mosaic: 10. The return of the native: the politics of identity in American Indian fiction of the West Philip Burnham\u003cbr\u003e 11. Regionalism makes good: the San Francisco Renaissance Linda Hamalian\u003cbr\u003e 12. 'The Circle Almost Circled': some notes on California's fiction James D. Houston\u003cbr\u003e 13. Fighting the religion of the present: Western motifs in the first wave of Asian American plays Misha Berson.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065995940120,"sku":"9780521565592","price":33.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521565592i.jpg?v=1691408648","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-the-west-new-essays-on-the-literature-of-the-american-west-paperback-9780521565592","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}