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

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 savage new world to claim the...

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Main Author: Slotkin, Richard, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1973]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Physical Description:
viii, 670 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
National characteristics, American.
Regeneration in literature.
Violence in literature.
Myth in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Myth in literature.
National characteristics, American.
Regeneration in literature.
Violence in literature.
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