Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860

by Richard Slotkin

Overview

In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries-including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville-Slotkin traces the full development of this myth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806132297
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	04/15/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	684
Sales rank:	841,245
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.