Title: Regeneration through violence
Subtitle: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860
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.
Subjects: Regeneration in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, Myth in literature, Violence in literature, History and criticism, American literature, American National characteristics, Mythology in literature, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, Mythologie dans la littérature, Américains, Littérature américaine, Mythos, Weststaaten, Histoire et critique, American literature, history and criticism, National characteristics, american