Fussell Frontier in American Literature

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7220-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 468 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The Pioneer; Walden: The Frontier; Chapter 5: Herman Melville; Early Western Travels; Moby-Dick; The Disputed Frontier; The Confidence-Man; Chapter 6: Indian Summer of the Literary West; Thoreau's Unwritten Epic; Hawthorne's Last Stand; Melville as Poet; Chapter 7: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Index

Originally published in 1965.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fussell, Edwin S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xv
Introduction, pg. 1
CHAPTER ONE. The Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, pg. 27
CHAPTER THREE. Edgar Allan Poe, pg. 132
CHAPTER FOUR. Henry David Thoreau, pg. 175
CHAPTER FIVE. Herman Melville, pg. 232
CHAPTER SIX. Indian Summer of the Literary West, pg. 327
CHAPTER SEVEN. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, pg. 397
Index, pg. 443