Title: Reading the West
Description: Reading the West is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars, and critics on the literature of the American West. The essays in this volume enrich our understanding of western writing by reemphasizing the importance of "place" in literary studies. Whether focusing upon gender, genre, class, or multiethnic and environmental concerns, these essays seek to reinvigorate an interest in regional artistry.

Aimed to a general audience as well as an academic readership, this volume conveys a sense of the true depth and complexity of western writing, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Subjects: Homes and haunts, In literature, Intellectual life, Western stories, History and criticism, American literature, American Authors, American literature, history and criticism, Western stories, history and criticism, West (u.s.), social life and customs, West (u.s.), in literature, Literature, Literatur, Westernliteratur, Weststaaten, Aufsatzsammlung, Amerikaans, Frontier, Letterkunde, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Westerns (littérature), Dans la littérature, Vie intellectuelle, University of South Alabama