Old West--new West : centennial essays / edited by Barbara Howard Meldrum.
| Other author | Meldrum, Barbara Howard. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1993. |
| Description | xi, 318 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | New approaches to the American West / Gerald D. Nash -- What Raymond Chandler knew and western historians forgot / Patricia N. Limerick -- Women and the language of men / Jane Tompkins -- Night John Wayne danced with Shirley Temple / Max Westbrook -- New historian and the old West / Forrest G. Robinson -- Battered pioneers: The problem of male violence against women as seen through Mari Sandoz's Old Jules / Betsy Downey -- Polygamous yet monogamous: culture conflict in the writings of Mormon polygamous wives / Paula Kelly Harline -- Journals of Lewis and Clark: an American epic / Frank Bergon -- Bridging of two cultures: Frances Hodgson Burnett and the wild West / Susan Naramore Maher -- Making an aristocratic frontier: selective history in Willa Cather's Shadows on the rock / Gary Brienzo |
| Contents | (cont.) My western roots / Marilynne Robinson -- Housekeeping: New West novel, old West film / Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien -- Reading the myth of the West / Helen Lojek -- Stone-eyed griffons: Mythology in contemporary Montana fiction / Nathaniel Lewis -- Investment in place: Thomas McGuane in Montana / Nancy S. Cook -- "Bring forth the king's remembrancer": Folklore as history in the work of Ivan Doig / Elizabeth Simpson -- Spiraling around the hinge: Working solutions in Always coming home / Mary C. Harper -- Choice to write: Mourning dove's search for survival / Alanna Kathleen Brown -- "Myths of the East, myths of the West": Shattering racial and gender stereotypes in the plays of David Henry Hwang / Jerry R. Dockey -- Revaluing nature: Toward an ecological criticism / Glen A. Love. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92029828 |
| ISBN | 0893011630 |