Foreword by Michael P. Branch
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconsidering the “When” of the West
1. From Hunahpu to Hiawatha: The Passion of Corn and the Sublimation of Violence in Native American Mythmaking
Paul G. Zolbrod
2. When the East Was West: Vinland in the American Imaginary
Annette Kolodny
3. Accommodating Presence: Esteban, Fray Marcos, and the Problem of Literary Translation on the American Frontier
Cassander L. Smith
4. Captured by Genre: Mary Rowlandson’s Western Imagination on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier
John David Miles
5. The Royal Frontier: Colonist and Native Relations in Aphra Behn’s Virginia
Rebecca M. Lush
6. Frontier Commonwealths: Violence, Private Interest, and the Public Good in Hennepin’s A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America
David J. Peterson
7. The Bad Guys Wear Tricornered Hats: The Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II Hide Painting in Spanish and French Colonial Literature
Gordon M. Sayre
8. The Removes of Harriot Stuart: Charlotte Lennox and the Birth of the Western
Marta Kvande and Sara Spurgeon
9. Contrast and Contradiction: The Emergent West in Crèvecoeur’s Regional Theory
Tara Penry
10. The Business of Heaven and Earth: Toponymy and the Imperial Idyll in the Domínguez-Escalante Journal of 1776
George English Brooks
11. An Eighteenth-Century Narrative of Encounter in the Trans-Mississippi West: Jean-Baptiste Trudeau on the Missouri River
Robert Woods Sayre
12. Harmonizing the “West”: Jefferson’s Account of Louisiana and American Identity
Renaud Contini
Contributors
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