Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West / Mary Lawlor.

Author/creator Lawlor, Mary, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxii, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--West (U.S.). --History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Literature and history--West (U.S.). --History.
Western stories--History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Naturalism in literature.
Closure (Rhetoric)
West (U.S.)--In literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.

Contents Romantic Westernism and the example of Daniel Boone -- Scenes of visionary enchantment: the Lewis and Clark narratives and the Leatherstocking novels -- Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward S. Curtis, and the romance of disappearing -- Importing naturalism to the American West -- Frank Norris and the fiction of the lost West -- Jack London and the politics of evolution -- Stephen Crane's literary tourism -- Willa Cather and the enchantment of difference -- The strangeness of closure.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.
LCCN 99056541
ISBN0813528291 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813528305 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.W4 L39 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold