Reading the West
Subtitle: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 23, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521565592
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / American
First sentence: "Place" and "region" permeate western literature, from James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie in 1825 to Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) to Ivan Doig's This House of Sky (1978), subtitled "Landscapes of a Western Mind."