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- catalog abstract ""In Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley argues that although recent scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters the optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence, surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American "character" when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorize national pasts and futures through intimate relationships."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12573749.
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) In literature.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley argues that although recent scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters the optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence, surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American "character" when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorize national pasts and futures through intimate relationships."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-255) and index.".
- catalog description "Western unions -- Turner's rhetorical frontier -- Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions -- Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions -- Unwedded west: Cather's divides -- Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography -- Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner.".
- catalog extent "xi, 261 p. :".
- catalog identifier "052181667X (HB)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [132]".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S)".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "810.9/3278 21".
- catalog subject "American literature West (U.S) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Family violence in literature.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Marriage in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American Homes and haunts West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "PS271 .H29 2002".
- catalog subject "Violence in literature.".
- catalog subject "Western stories History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women pioneers in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Western unions -- Turner's rhetorical frontier -- Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions -- Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions -- Unwedded west: Cather's divides -- Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography -- Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner.".
- catalog title "Marriage, violence, and the nation in the American literary West / William R. Handley.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".