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A companion to the literature an d culture of the American west

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BL17942

Title Proper

A companion to the literature an d culture of the American west

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Nicolas S. Witschi.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. Malden, MA

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Wiley-Blackwell

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 563 p. : ill.

Series Title

Blackwell companions to literature an d culture

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American literature

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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

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West )U.S.(

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West )U.S.(

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West )U.S.(

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Includes bibliographical references an d index

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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments. -- Note on Contributors. -- List of Illustrations -- Part I: Introduction. -- 1 Imagining The West )Nicolas S. Witschi(. -- Part II: Regions an d Histories. -- 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, an d Early Fiction, 1780-1850 )Edward Watts(. -- 3 Worlds of Wonder an d Ambition: Gold Rush California an d the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West )Peter Blodgett(. -- 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals )Tara Penry(. -- 5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833-1928 )Nina Baym(. -- 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest )Daniel Worden(. -- 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains )Susan Naremore Maher(. -- 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place )O. Alan Weltzien(. -- 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature )Eric Heyne(. -- 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West )Hsuan L. Hsu(. -- 11 African American Literature an d Culture an d the American West )Michael K. Johnson(. -- 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztla n, an d the Cosmic Race )John L. Escobedo(. -- 13 Native American Literature an d Culture of the American West )Kathleen Washburn(. -- 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-Wides an d McMansions )Nancy Cook(. -- 15 Postcolonial West )Alex Hunt(. -- 16 New West, Urban an d Suburban Spaces, Postwest )Krista Comer(. -- Part III: Varieties an d Forms. -- 17 What We Talk about When We Talk about Western Art )Brian W. Dippie(. -- 18 "All Hat an d No Cattle": Romance, Realism, an d Late-19th-Century Western American Fiction )Gary Scharnhorst(. -- 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry )Barbara Barney Nelson(. -- 20 "The Wind Blew Them Away": Folksinging the West, 1880-1930 )David Fenimore(. -- 21 Autobiography )Gioia Woods(. -- 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century an d Beyond )Cathryn Halverson(. -- 23 The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature an d Environmental Literary Criticism )Hal Crimmel(. -- 24 Detective Fiction )Nicolas S. Witschi(. -- 25 The American Western Film )Corey Creekmur(. -- 26 Post-Western Cinema )Neil Campbell(. -- Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies. -- 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West )Jefferson Slagle(. -- 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play )Karen E. Ramirez(. -- 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger )Chadwick Allen(. -- 30 The Nuclear Southwest )Audrey Goodman(. -- 31 Ranging Over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy )Bonney MacDonald(. -- 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, an d Literary Production )Susan Kollin(. -- 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas )Stephen Tatum an d Nathaniel Lewis(.

Relator Code

AU

Entry Element

Witschi, Nicolas S.,