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The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614275725
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Significance of the Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.

Frontier in American Literature

Author : Edwin S. Fussell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872200
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Frontier in American Literature written by Edwin S. Fussell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Frontier Gothic

Author : David Mogen
Publisher : Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Frontier Gothic written by David Mogen and published by Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen essays on American literature and culture defines and examines a gothic tradition in frontier writing. As the imaginative border between the known and the unknown, the frontier subject has provided a bridge to gothic domains and has been used by writers from every period in American history to explore social, ethnic, and gender frontiers, as well as frontiers of art and language. The frontier gothic world, for all of its ambiguity and ambivalence, is nevertheless immanent, palpable, and undeniably present, and it impinges significantly upon the conventional world, forcing that world to change, to adapt, to transform itself or be destroyed. The essays consider canonical writers such as Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville; they also discuss Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edward Abbey, William Gibson, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Silko, and Rudolfo Anaya. Also included is a previously uncollected short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Giant Wistaria," discussed by essayist Gary Scharnhorst as "A Hieroglyph of the Female Frontier Gothic." In American literature, the frontier gothic tradition expresses the spirit of a nation proud of its pragmatic realism and hungry for romance, vigorously pursuing a manifest destiny in the light of day, yet troubled and enraptured by gothic intimations of twilight apparitions, midnight curses, and the demons that haunt the last hour before dawn.

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier

Author : John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820318875
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his portrayal of America's westward migration.

The Frontier in American Literature

Author : Lucy Lockwood Hazard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature written by Lucy Lockwood Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Frontier in American Culture

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915321
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Culture written by Richard White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.

The Frontier in American Literature.

Author : Philip Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780023306303
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature. written by Philip Durham and published by . This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects historical and fictional writings that illustrate the constant progression of territorial conquests, from the Atlantic to the Pacific

The frontier in American history

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The frontier in American history written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Frontier in American Literature

Author : Lucy Lockwood Hazard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature written by Lucy Lockwood Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature

Author : Michael Kyle Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806134147
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature written by Michael Kyle Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American writings often express a hunger for a mythologized frontier at the edge of known civilization, where one's identity, choices, and decisions are not limited by convention. Since the nineteenth century, writers have used this frontier space both to probe and to define the meanings of masculinity. In Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Michael K. Johnson examines the writings of black authors whose works use the mythologized frontier to explore black masculinity and identity formed in an environment free of racism and race-based restrictions. Black writers have reworked the mythology of the American West to address black male experiences more authentically, Johnson argues, grappling with such concerns as racial assimilation and the notion of "regenerative violence" as a method of masculine initiation. White-authored stories of frontier conquest often pit a white hunter against a hunted man of another race. In this ritual of the hunt, defeating the racial other renews white manhood. Black writers who invoke this ritual address the contradictions inherent in adapting a dominant culture form that routinely positions the black man as the hunted object rather than as the hunter. Following his discussion of the frontier in the American West, Johnson explores how writers invent new frontiers by mythologizing or reimagining various locations, such as Paris in the 1960s or the African continent. Johnson also addresses efforts by black authors to develop a frontier identity that transcends the gaps between the cultures of Africa and the mainstream culture of the United States.

The Frontier in American Literature

Author : Lucy L. Hazard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849523465
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature written by Lucy L. Hazard and published by . This book was released on 1979-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Frontier in American Literature

Author : Philip Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780672630408
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature written by Philip Durham and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Frontier

Author : Edwin Fussell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Frontier written by Edwin Fussell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Frontier in American Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Frontier in American Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past

Author : Peter Boag
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949951
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past written by Peter Boag and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.

The Frontier Experience and the American Dream

Author : David Mogen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frontier Experience and the American Dream written by David Mogen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the mountains that separated the English colonies from the Great Plains lay the frontier, which produced a set of images, attitudes, and assumptions that have shaped a peculiarly American literary heritage. The eighteen scholars represented here focus on the importance of frontier mythology to many American writers.

The Light in the Forest

Author : Conrad Richter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077885
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light in the Forest written by Conrad Richter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.