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Masculinities in Literature of the American West

By Lydia R. Cooper

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9781137568991 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 6, 2016, cover price $95.00

A History of Western American Literature

Product Description: The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists.Â Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations...read more

By Susan Kollin (editor)

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9781107083851 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 11, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists.

Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West

Product Description: Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, âthe Western,â Susan Kollinâs Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West...read more

By Susan Kollin

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9780803226999 | 1 edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 2015), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, âthe Western,â Susan Kollinâs Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West.

Paperback:

9780533134960, titled "Hooked" | Vantage Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $7.95 | also contains Hooked

Hoo-doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West

By Michael K. Johnson

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Hardcover:

9781617039287 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 8, 2014, cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9781496804624 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 28, 2015), cover price $30.00

Territories of Empire: U.s. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence

By Andy Doolen

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9780199348626 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 23, 2014, cover price $53.00

Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature: Healing Narratives

Product Description: The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an âauthenticâ relationship with nature...read more

By Theda Wrede

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9780739184950 | Lexington Books, April 10, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an âauthenticâ relationship with nature.

Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper (editor)

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9780810892644 | Scarecrow Pr, October 18, 2013, cover price $83.00

The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924

By Christine Bold

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9780199731794 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 31, 2013, cover price $33.95

Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

Product Description: Women Writers of the American West, 1833â1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley...read more

By Nina Baym

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9780252035975 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, February 22, 2011), cover price $95.00

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9780252078842 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 2012), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Women Writers of the American West, 1833â1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley.

Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

By Stephen Fender

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Hardcover:

9780521239240 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1982, cover price $49.95

Paperback:

9780521135719 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2010, cover price $44.99

The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682-1826: Gender, Action, and Emotion

By Denise Mary Macneil

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9780230621503 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2009, cover price $110.00

Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature

Product Description: Since World War II, the American West has become the nationâs military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the regionâs iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the Westâs crucial role in a postâWorld War II age of âpermanent war...read more

By John Beck

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9780803226319 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Since World War II, the American West has become the nationâs military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site.

Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West

Product Description: This book engages hemispheric approaches, working class perspectives, and transnational comparisons in order to analyze Western literature.

By Reginald Dyck (editor) and Cheli Reutter (editor)

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9780230613430 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2009), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This book engages hemispheric approaches, working class perspectives, and transnational comparisons in order to analyze Western literature.

Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West

Product Description: William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families...read more

By William R. Handley

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9780521816670 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 2, 2002, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: William R.

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9780521093422 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 11, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: William R.

Imagining the African American West

Product Description: The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American Westâthe first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West...read more

By Blake Allmendinger

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9780803210677 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored.

Paperback:

9780803220829 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored.

Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship

Product Description: The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contextsâand thus of the very natureâof western writing...read more

By Nathaniel Lewis

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9780803229389 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real?

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9780803218468 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real?

Spaces Of The Mind: Narrative And Community In The American West

Product Description: Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and center themselves in time and space. Elaine A. Jahner skillfully weaves together years of fieldwork among the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota, her own memories of growing up in a German-Russian town across the Missouri River from the Standing Rock Sioux, and an illuminating set of narrative concepts...read more

By Elaine A. Jahner

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9780803225985 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and center themselves in time and space.

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9780803218338 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and center themselves in time and space.

Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space

Product Description: Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and includes new regional studies, global studies, studies of popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism...read more

By Susan Kollin (editor)

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9780803211148 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume.

Paperback:

9780803260443 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume.

Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West

Product Description: One of the most significant and surprising developments in contemporary southern fiction is that an increasing number of southern writers are writing about the American West. In Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, Robert H...read more

By Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.

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9780820321899 | Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: One of the most significant and surprising developments in contemporary southern fiction is that an increasing number of southern writers are writing about the American West.

Paperback:

9780820329970 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: One of the most significant and surprising developments in contemporary southern fiction is that an increasing number of southern writers are writing about the American West.

True West: Authenticity and the American West

Product Description: In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature,Â popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention...read more

By William R. Handley (editor) and Nathaniel Lewis (editor)

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9780803224100 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West.

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9780803259768 | Bison Books, May 1, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West.

Westernness: A Meditation

Product Description: A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner...read more

By Alan Williamson

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9780813925110 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A first-person meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, Westernness: A Meditation explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting, from the point of view of someone who has been, at different times in his life, both a westerner and an easterner.

Exploding The Western: Myths Of Empire On The Postmodern Frontier

Product Description: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontierÂthe place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each otherâs textsÂcontinues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike...read more

By Sara L. Spurgeon

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9781585444038 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $40.00

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9781585444229 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all.

Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature

Product Description: Ann Ronald found a career and a home when she moved to Reno to teach at the University of Nevada. There, she undertook the study of the literature of the West and discovered that the region's vast open spaces satisfied her zest for the outdoors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ann Ronald

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9780874175240 | Univ of Nevada Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Ann Ronald found a career and a home when she moved to Reno to teach at the University of Nevada.

Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature

Product Description: In this study of collaborative writing in western American literature, Linda K. Karell asks broad and fruitful questions about how writing in general is produced. By examining "collaboration" both as a process and as a product, she challenges the definition of an author as an individual genius who creates original works of art in isolation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Linda K. Karell

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9780803227491 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this study of collaborative writing in western American literature, Linda K.

Literature of the American West: A Cultural Approach

Product Description: Literature of the American West is an anthology of "literary" and popular fiction; historical personal narratives; contemporary reflective essays; author biographies, and critical perspectives on the images, literatures, and films of the American West...read more

By Greg Lyons (editor)

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9780205324613 | Longman Pub Group, October 1, 2002, cover price $84.80 | About this edition: Literature of the American West is an anthology of "literary" and popular fiction; historical personal narratives; contemporary reflective essays; author biographies, and critical perspectives on the images, literatures, and films of the American West.

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