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MacNeil, Denise Mary.

 

  • The emergence of the American frontier hero, 1682-1826[electronic resource] :gender, action, and emotion /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 810.93278
    Title/Author: The emergence of the American frontier hero, 1682-1826 : gender, action, and emotion // Denise Mary MacNeil.
    Author: MacNeil, Denise Mary.
    Published: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    Description: 226 p. ;; 22 cm.
    Subject: American literature - History and criticism. - West (U.S.)
    Subject: American literature - History and criticism.
    Subject: Western stories - History and criticism.
    Subject: Western films - History and criticism.
    Subject: Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
    Subject: Frontier and pioneer life in motion pictures.
    Subject: West (U.S.) - In literature.
    ISBN: 9780230103993
    ISBN: 0230103995
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: The American frontier hero in Mary Rowlandson's Narrative of the capitivity and restauration -- Mythological roots of the American frontierhero -- Mary Rowlandson, Puritan hero -- Mothering theAdamic hero -- Transcending gendered English American social positions: gender and racial multiplicity in the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield -- Dancing between ferocity and delicacy in Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker / Charles Brockden Brown -- Reconstituting the American frontier hero through James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo in The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757 --Mary Rowlandson in jeans: The John Ford/John Wayne film The Searchers and the Mary Rowlandson archetype.
    [NT 15000229]: The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero,from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor John Wayne.
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