{"product_id":"before-the-west-was-west-critical-essays-on-pre1800-literature-of-the-american-frontiers-9780803254893","title":"Before the West Was West  Critical Essays on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBefore the West Was West\u003c\/i\u003e marks a productive step back to the future.\"—Keri Holt, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By asking early Americanists to understand that they can also be westernists, and by asking westernists to understand their work as early, Hamilton and Hillard compel scholars in both fields to continue testing the intersections and assumptions of their disciplines.\"—Edward Watts, \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The insights into the ‘when’ of the American West offered by this book are both timely and essential to our further understanding of how cultures developed in the contact zones of the northern parts of the western hemisphere.”—Nicolas S. Witschi, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Michael P. Branch    \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Reconsidering the “When” of the West    \u003cbr\u003e1. From Hunahpu to Hiawatha: The Passion of Corn and the Sublimation of Violence in Native American Mythmaking    \u003cbr\u003ePaul G. Zolbrod\u003cbr\u003e2. When the East Was West: Vinland in the American Imaginary    \u003cbr\u003eAnnette Kolodny\u003cbr\u003e3. Accommodating Presence: Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the Problem of Literary Translation on the American Frontier    \u003cbr\u003eCassander L. Smith\u003cbr\u003e4. Captured by Genre: Mary Rowlandson’s Western Imagination on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier    \u003cbr\u003eJohn David Miles\u003cbr\u003e5. The Royal Frontier: Colonist and Native Relations in Aphra Behn’s Virginia    \u003cbr\u003eRebecca M. Lush\u003cbr\u003e6. Frontier Commonwealths: Violence, Private Interest, and the Public Good in Hennepin’s A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America     \u003cbr\u003eDavid J. Peterson\u003cbr\u003e7. The Bad Guys Wear Tricornered Hats: The Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II Hide Painting in Spanish and French Colonial Literature    \u003cbr\u003eGordon M. Sayre\u003cbr\u003e8. The Removes of Harriot Stuart: Charlotte Lennox and the Birth of the Western    \u003cbr\u003eMarta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon\u003cbr\u003e9. Contrast and Contradiction: The Emergent West in Crèvecoeur’s Regional Theory    \u003cbr\u003eTara Penry\u003cbr\u003e10. The Business of Heaven and Earth: Toponymy and the Imperial Idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante Journal of 1776    \u003cbr\u003eGeorge English Brooks\u003cbr\u003e11. An Eighteenth-Century Narrative of Encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West: Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri River\u003cbr\u003eRobert Woods Sayre\u003cbr\u003e12. Harmonizing the “West”: Jefferson’s Account of Louisiana and American Identity    \u003cbr\u003eRenaud Contini\u003cbr\u003eContributors    \u003cbr\u003eIndex    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405261087063,"sku":"9780803254893","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803254893.jpg?v=1730489321","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/before-the-west-was-west-critical-essays-on-pre1800-literature-of-the-american-frontiers-9780803254893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}