Bibliograph

The frontier in American literature

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Label

The frontier in American literature

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The frontier in American literature

Oclc number

269437

Series statement

American classics

Table Of Contents

I. Puritan frontier -- Chronicles of old New England ; Motives of the Puritan migration ; Character of the Puritan emigrants ; Puritan en voyage ; Finding of the frontier ; Puritan community : attitude toward the Indians ; Theocracy ; Intolerance ; Superstition ; Introspection ; Repressions ; Dissensions ; Individualism ; Distinguishing features of the New England frontier ; Hawthorne : the reluctant Puritan : the timid pioneer -- II. Southern frontier : a study in Romanticism -- Plantation and frontier ; Captain John Smith : Elizabethan imperialist ; Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, esquire ; Congressman Davy Crockett : the backwoods politician ; Southern frontier in American literature ; Cult of the colonel ; Fad of the primitive ; Escape to Poictesme -- III. Hunter and trapper : heroes of the fur trade -- New types of frontiersmen ; James Fenimore Cooper ; Washington Irving ; John G. Neihardt ; Fate of frontier characters -- IV. Golden age of transcendentalism -- Influence of the frontier on transcendentalism ; Frontier elements in transcendentalism ; Transcendental idealization of frontier traits ; Transcendental recognition of regional pioneering ; Transcendentalists as spiritual pioneers ; Thoreau, the intensive pioneer ; Walt Whitman : the afterglow of the golden age -- V. Frontier of '49 -- Literary frontiers ; Historical fidelity of Western literature ; Bret Harte, melodramatist ; Heart of the West ; Mark Twain : Wild West humorist of the Pacific slope ; Psychic West ; Frontier and local color -- VI. Gilded age of industrial pioneering -- Exploitation of natural resources : the masters of capital ; Andrew Carnegie : triumphant democracy ; Mark Twain : son and satirist of the gilded age ; Robert Herrick : the story of a self-made senator ; Theodore Dreiser : Cowperwood, the creature of chemistry -- VII. Frontier and the nester -- Frontier and farm ; Farm in American literature ; Hector St. John Crevecoeur ; Hamlin Garland ; Frank Norris ; Willa Cather -- VIII. Coming age of spiritual pioneering

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