Beyond the frontier : writers, Western regionalism, and a sense of place
Print Book, English, ©1989
Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, ©1989
Western fiction
x, 192 pages ; 24 cm
9780875650401, 0875650406
19393657
1. Prospects, limitations and a sense of regional place : an introduction
2. Frederick Jackson Turner : frontier as symbol
3. The tempered romanticism of John Muir
4. The West as apotheosis
5. The closed frontier and American tragedy
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : barriers and boundaries
7. Ole Rölvaag and the immigrant promise denied
8. California, Nathanael West and the journey's end
9. The West and eschatology
10. Regionalism as Frontier synthesis
11. Three Montana regionalists : Ivan Doig, James Welch, Norman Maclean
12. Home and the good life : conclusion