Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin
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.
Slotkin, Richard: - Richard Slotkin is widely regarded as one of the preeminent cultural critics of our times. A two-time finalist for the National Book Award, he is the author of Lost Battalions, a New York Times Notable Book, and an award-winning trilogy on the myth of the frontier in America-Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation - as well as three historical novels: The Crater: A Novel, The Return of Henry Starr, and Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780806132297 |
| ISBN 10 | 0806132299 |
| Title | Regeneration Through Violence |
| Author | Richard Slotkin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Year published | 2000-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 670 |
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