Regeneration through violence
Subtitle: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860
By: by Richard Slotkin.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Frontier and pioneer life in literature.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Regeneration in literature.; Violence in literature.; Myth in literature.
Description: "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 strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-622) and index.
Originally published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1973.