Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West (2002)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 052181667X

Condition: Good

There is underlining on the first few pages, and an inscription (presumably from the author) on the title page. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Handley argues that although recent scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters the optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence, surrounding marriages and families. - from the back cover