Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860

כריכה קדמית
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 - 670 עמודים

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.

 

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Myth and Literature in a New World
3
European vs American
25
The Origin of
57
The Archetype of the Captivity
94
Captivity Mythology
116
Initiation
146
The Search for a Hero and the Problem of
180
The Evolution of Literary
223
The Emergence of a Hero 1784
268
Farmer to Hunter
313
The Frontier Myth
369
The Boone Myth
394
The Leatherstocking Myth
466
A Pyramid of Skulls
517
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מידע על המחבר (2000)

Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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