Reading the West: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts-Fast Shipping

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Title: Reading the West: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts

Author: Bill Brown

ISBN: 9780312137618

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s

Published: 1997

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : This exciting collection makes 4 previously hard-to-find dime Westerns easily available to readers who wish to enrich their understanding of nineteenth-century American literature. These varied novels provide a new and important context for examining classic, widely taught authors and tell us much about nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and gender. The anthology includes: “Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, ” by Ann S. Stephens (1860) “Seth Jones; or The Captives of the Frontier, ” by Edward S. Ellis (1860) “Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road, ” by Edward J. Wheeler (1877) “Frank Reade, The Inventor, Chasing the James Boys With His Steam Team, ” Anonymous (1890) With an introduction that critically examines the historical and cultural background of the dime Western, a chronology of relevant background information on historical figures and events, headnotes to the novels, glosses of unfamiliar terms and references, 27 illustrations, and a selected bibliography, this edition makes frequently overlooked dime Westerns readily accessible for serious study, particularly in courses that emphasize a new historicist or cultural studies approach.