Frontier: American Literature and the American West

by Edwin S. Fussell

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691621292
• ISBN13: 9780691621296
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"