The American West and its interpreters essays on literary history and historiography
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Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful evaluations of individual historians--revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing |
| Author(s): | Richard W. Etulain |
| Document: | Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ] |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Published: | 2023 |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 311 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Contents: | Transitions in Western Historiography The American Literary West and Its Interpreters The Rise of a New Historiography Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History The Twentieth-Century American West A New Historiographical Frontier Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History After Turner The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson Earl Pomeroy Reorienting Western History Inventing the Pacific Northwest Novelists and the Regions History Western Stories for the Next Generation Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity New Views of the American West Research Opportunities in Western History |
| Subjects: | Criticism West (U.S.), HISTORY Historiography, HISTORY United States State & Local West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Historiography, Historiography West (U.S.), LITERARY CRITICISM American Regional, West United States |
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