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The American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
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Available until 31 Dec |Learn more
The American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
About this book
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Transitions in Western Historiography
- Chapter 2. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters The Rise of a New Historiography
- Chapter 3. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History
- Chapter 4. The Twentieth-Century American West A New Historiographical Frontier
- Chapter 5. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History
- Chapter 6. After Turner The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
- Chapter 7. Earl Pomeroy Reorienting Western History
- Chapter 8. Inventing the Pacific Northwest Novelists and the Region’s History
- Chapter 9. Western Stories for the Next Generation
- Chapter 10. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity New Views of the American West
- Chapter 11. Research Opportunities in Western History
- Poll The Most Influential Western Historians
- Notes
- American West Historiography Books and Essays
- Desired Permission to Reprint Statements from Publishers
- Index