Tales of Adventurous Enterprise : : Washington Irving and the Poetics of Western Expansion / / Peter Antelyes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Antelyes, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Abbreviations and Editions Cited --; 1. The Tale of Adventurous Enterprise --; 2. Irving, the West, and the Work of the Imagination --; 3. A Satire of Western Economic Expansion: A Tour on the Prairies --; 4. A Celebration and a Warning: Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprize Beyond the Rocky Mountains and The Adventures of Captain Bonneville --; Afterword --; Notes --; Works Consulted --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231891615; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/ante93018
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Antelyes.

Examines the tale of adventurous enterprise and western expansion as an American literary form and identifies the role Washington Irving played in development of that tale.