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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Slotkin |
ISBN: | 0819540552 9780819540553 0819560340 9780819560346 |
OCLC Number: | 333612 |
Awards: | American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1973. |
Description: | viii, 670 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Myth and literature in the New World -- Cannibals and Christians: European vs. American Indian culture -- Home in the heart of darkness: the origin of the Indian War narratives (1625-1682) -- Israel in Babylon: the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700) -- A palisade of language: captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693) -- The hunting of the beast: initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725) -- The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765) -- A gallery of types: the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785) -- Narrative into myth: the emergence of a hero (1784) -- Evolution of the national hero: farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855) -- Society and solitude: the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825) -- The fragmented image: the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850) -- Man without a cross: the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841) -- A pyramid of skulls. |
Other Titles: | Mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860 |
Responsibility: | by Richard Slotkin. |
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1. Myth and literature in a New World. 2. Cannibals and Christians: Europeans vs. American Indian culture. 3. A home in the heart id darkness: the origin of the Indian War...
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Table of Contents:
1. Myth and literature in a New World. 2. Cannibals and Christians: Europeans vs. American Indian culture. 3. A home in the heart id darkness: the origin of the Indian War narrative (1625-1682). 4. Israel in Babylon: the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700). 5. A palisade of language: captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693).
6. The hunting of the beast: initiation or exorcism? (1675-1765). 7. The search for a hero and the problem of the ‘natural man’ (1700-1765). 8. A gallery of types: the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785). 9. Narrative into myth: the emergence of a hero (1784). 10. Evolution of the national hero: farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855).
11. Society and solitude: the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825). 12. The fragmented image: the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850). 13. Man without a cross: the leatherstocking myth (1823-1841). 14. A pyramid of skulls.
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