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From: World and I[(review date June 2001) In the following review of True History of the Kelly Gang, Ross explores the Australian glorification of the outlaw Ned Kelly, viewing Kelly's adulation as a statement against the imperial power...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Bosmajian portrays Little House on the Prairie as a book aware of its use of "felicitous space," simultaneously depicting the American prairie as both vast and intimate.] To...
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From: History of Education Quarterly[In the following essay, Phillips identifies Addams's intellectual forebears, a group that ranges from Abraham Lincoln to Auguste Comte.] Perhaps as a final tribute to a nineteenth century individualism soon to be...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date July 1976) In the following essay, Milton discusses Fisher's theme of primitive humanity in the "Testament of Man" novel series.] With the subjects and themes of advanced society (at least in the last two...
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From: Markham Review[(essay date summer 1979) In the following essay, Albertini notes Cather's realistic portrayal of the personal, political, and economic strife endured by rural Nebraskans in "Peter," "On the Divide," "Lou, the Prophet,"...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Louis L'Amour is undoubtedly the most widely read and best selling western author ever. His domination of the popular western for over forty years has helped to develop the genre, which continues to fascinate readers of...
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From: Under the Sun: Myth and Realism in Western American Literature[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Armitage draws on Richard Slotkin's concept of subliterary myth-making to show how Foote's stories of the West grew from her realistic illustrations of the region and explored...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersConrad Richter may be best known for his historical Ohio trilogy, The Trees, The Fields, and The Town, but it is his Light in the Forest which has attracted consistent attention in the public schools and has developed an...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Because of the nature of his fiction and the timing of his publication of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868), Bret Harte is often remembered as the earliest of American local colorists. Insofar as his craftsmanship is...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1991) In the following essay, Hug compares McTeague with the Western fiction of American writer Bret Harte.] Whenever literary critics and historians discuss Frank Norris' McTeague, they generally...
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From: (review) in U.S. News & World ReportArriving in Kentucky's Cumberland hills in 1775, the patriarch of the Rowen clan kidnaps for himself a Cherokee bride. When she proves unwilling and tries to escape, he lames her by slashing her tendons. Fifteen years...
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From: Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Mathes explains that while the author intended to use Ramona as a means to awaken pubic interest in the condition of Native Americans, the work has enjoyed far greater success...
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From: Western American Literature[In the following essay, Erisman analyzes Henderson's use of the myth of the American frontier in her stories of the People. Henderson applies the concept of frontier broadly, the critic contends: “She is concerned with...
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From: in Manhood and the American Renaissance[(essay date 1989) In the following excerpt, Leverenz explores the manner in which Kirkland utilized class conflict to generate humor in A New Home. Leverenz argues that "Kirkland's voice and wit depend on a clash...
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From: Prairie Schooner[(essay date 1979) In the following essay, exploring the interplay of words and pictures, and of fact and fiction in Morris's Nebraska novels, Neinstein argues that Morris's characters taint the perception of the actual...
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From: and "The Far West Letters." In Thomas Bangs Thorpe: Humorist of the Old Southwest[(essay date 1962) In the following excerpts, Rickels analyzes Thorpe's narrative technique in "The Big Bear of Arkansas," while discussing the story's significance within the context of American frontier humor. Rickels...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date spring 1964) In the following essay, Anderson surveys the critical reaction to Southwestern humor literature.] An Easterner traveling in the backcountry of the Old Southwest in the 1840's forced his tired...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 183. )[(essay date summer 1981) In the following excerpt, Oehlschlaeger examines Wright's treatment of the theme of emasculation, and his depiction of women as symbols of the emasculating force of civilization, in the novels...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The dual character of Willa Cather's My Ántonia is suggested by its title, for it is at once the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian emigre to the state of Nebraska in the 1880s, and the story of the narrator...
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From: Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, first published in 1996, Gretlund discusses Josephine Humphreys's existentialism as seen through the choices her characters make in their daily lives and in particular Southern...