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- catalog abstract ""In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11573954.
- catalog created "[2000]".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "[2000]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[2000]".
- catalog description ""In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Myth and literature in a new world -- 2. Cannibals and Christians : European vs. American Indian culture -- 3. A home in the heart of darkness : the origins of the Indian war narratives (1625-1682) -- 4. Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700) -- 5. A palisade of language : captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693) -- 6. The hunting of the beast : initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725) -- 7. The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765) -- 8. A gallery of types : the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785) -- 9. Narrative into myth : the emergence of a hero (1784) -- 10. Evolution of the national hero : farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855) -- 11. Society and solitude : the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825) -- 12. The fragmented image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850) -- 13. Man without a cross : the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841) -- 14. A pyramid of skulls.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-622) and index.".
- catalog extent "670 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0806132299 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "[2000]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog subject "810.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Myth in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS169.F7 S57 2000".
- catalog subject "Regeneration in literature.".
- catalog subject "Violence in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Myth and literature in a new world -- 2. Cannibals and Christians : European vs. American Indian culture -- 3. A home in the heart of darkness : the origins of the Indian war narratives (1625-1682) -- 4. Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700) -- 5. A palisade of language : captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693) -- 6. The hunting of the beast : initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725) -- 7. The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765) -- 8. A gallery of types : the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785) -- 9. Narrative into myth : the emergence of a hero (1784) -- 10. Evolution of the national hero : farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855) -- 11. Society and solitude : the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825) -- 12. The fragmented image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850) -- 13. Man without a cross : the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841) -- 14. A pyramid of skulls.".
- catalog title "Regeneration through violence : the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860 / by Richard Slotkin.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".