دانلود کتاب A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the westContent: Chapter 1 Imagining the West (pages 1–10): Nicolas S. WitschiChapter 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780–1850 (pages 11–28): Edward WattsChapter 3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (pages 29–47): Peter J. BlodgettChapter 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth?Century Periodicals (pages 48–62): Tara PenryChapter 5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833–1928 (pages 63–80): Nina BaymChapter 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (pages 81–97): Daniel WordenChapter 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (pages 98–114): Susan Naramore MaherChapter 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (pages 115–129): O. Alan WeltzienChapter 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (pages 130–144): Eric HeyneChapter 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (pages 145–160): Hsuan L. HsuChapter 11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (pages 161–176): Michael K. JohnsonChapter 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlan, and the Cosmic Race (pages 177–190): John L. EscobedoChapter 13 Writing the Indigenous West (pages 191–212): Kathleen WashburnChapter 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double?Wides, and McMansions (pages 213–228): Nancy CookChapter 15 Postcolonial West (pages 229–243): Alex HuntChapter 16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (pages 244–260): Krista ComerChapter 17 What we talk about when we talk about Western Art (pages 261–280): Brian W. DippieChapter 18 “All Hat and No Cattle”: Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth?Century Western American Fiction (pages 281–296): Gary ScharnhorstChapter 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (pages 297–315): Barbara Barney NelsonChapter 20 “The Wind Blew them Away”: Folksinging the West, 1880–1930 (pages 316–335): David FenimoreChapter 21 Autobiography (pages 336–352): Gioia WoodsChapter 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (pages 353–366): Cathryn HalversonChapter 23 The Apple doesn't fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (pages 367–379): Hal CrimmelChapter 24 Detective Fiction (pages 380–394): Nicolas S. WitschiChapter 25 The American Western Film (pages 395–408): Corey K. CreekmurChapter 26 Post?Western Cinema (pages 409–424): Neil CampbellChapter 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (pages 425–442): Jefferson D. SlagleChapter 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (pages 443–461): Karen E. RamirezChapter 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (pages 462–482): Chadwick AllenChapter 30 The Nuclear Southwest (pages 483–498): Audrey GoodmanChapter 31 Ranging over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (pages 499–513): Bonney MacDonaldChapter 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (pages 514–527): Susan KollinChapter 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (pages 528–545): Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis