Frontier in American Literature

ISBN: 9780691621296 出版年：2015 页码：466 Fussell, Edwin S Princeton University Press

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; the disputed frontier; the confidence-man; chapter 6: indian summer of the literary west; thoreau's unwritten epic; hawthorne's last stand; melville as poet; chapter 7: walt whitman's leaves of grass; index originally published in 1965.