Regeneration through violence : the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860

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Label

Regeneration through violence : the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860

Title remainder

the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860

Statement of responsibility

by Richard Slotkin

Creator

• Slotkin, Richard, 1942-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Myth in literature
• American literature -- History and criticism
• Regeneration in literature
• Violence in literature
• National characteristics, American, in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/358

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS169.F7

LC item number

S57 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography