Tales of Adventurous Enterprise : : Washington Irving and the Poetics of Western Expansion / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1990] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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