A Companion To The Literature And Culture Of The American West Nicolas S Witschi Ed by Nicolas S. Witschi (ed.) 9781405187336, 9781444396591, 1405187336, 1444396595 instant download after payment.

• Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the westContent:
  Chapter 1 Imagining the West (pages 1–10): Nicolas S. Witschi
  Chapter 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780–1850 (pages 11–28): Edward Watts
  Chapter 3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (pages 29–47): Peter J. Blodgett
  Chapter 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth?Century Periodicals (pages 48–62): Tara Penry
  Chapter 5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833–1928 (pages 63–80): Nina Baym
  Chapter 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (pages 81–97): Daniel Worden
  Chapter 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (pages 98–114): Susan Naramore Maher
  Chapter 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (pages 115–129): O. Alan Weltzien
  Chapter 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (pages 130–144): Eric Heyne
  Chapter 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (pages 145–160): Hsuan L. Hsu
  Chapter 11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (pages 161–176): Michael K. Johnson
  Chapter 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlan, and the Cosmic Race (pages 177–190): John L. Escobedo
  Chapter 13 Writing the Indigenous West (pages 191–212): Kathleen Washburn
  Chapter 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double?Wides, and McMansions (pages 213–228): Nancy Cook
  Chapter 15 Postcolonial West (pages 229–243): Alex Hunt
  Chapter 16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (pages 244–260): Krista Comer
  Chapter 17 What we talk about when we talk about Western Art (pages 261–280): Brian W. Dippie
  Chapter 18 “All Hat and No Cattle”: Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth?Century Western American Fiction (pages 281–296): Gary Scharnhorst
  Chapter 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (pages 297–315): Barbara Barney Nelson
  Chapter 20 “The Wind Blew them Away”: Folksinging the West, 1880–1930 (pages 316–335): David Fenimore
  Chapter 21 Autobiography (pages 336–352): Gioia Woods
  Chapter 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (pages 353–366): Cathryn Halverson
  Chapter 23 The Apple doesn't fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (pages 367–379): Hal Crimmel
  Chapter 24 Detective Fiction (pages 380–394): Nicolas S. Witschi
  Chapter 25 The American Western Film (pages 395–408): Corey K. Creekmur
  Chapter 26 Post?Western Cinema (pages 409–424): Neil Campbell
  Chapter 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (pages 425–442): Jefferson D. Slagle
  Chapter 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (pages 443–461): Karen E. Ramirez
  Chapter 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (pages 462–482): Chadwick Allen
  Chapter 30 The Nuclear Southwest (pages 483–498): Audrey Goodman
  Chapter 31 Ranging over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (pages 499–513): Bonney MacDonald
  Chapter 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (pages 514–527): Susan Kollin
  Chapter 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (pages 528–545): Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis