Fussell, Edwin S. Frontier: American literature and the American West, [electronic resource] / by Edwin Fussell.. — Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press,, 1965.. — xv, 450 p. 25 cm.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Preface -- Introduction -- Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Sketches of Western adventure ; The scarlet letter ; Neutral territory -- Edgar Allan Poe -- South and West ; Narratives of exploration and discovery -- Henry David Thoreau -- Essential West ; Walden : the pioneer ; Walden : the frontier -- Herman Melville -- Early Western travels ; Moby-Dick ; Disputed frontier ; The confidence-man -- Indian summer of the literary West -- Thoreau's unwritten epic ; Hawthorne's last stand ; Melville as poet -- Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.



LCCN: 64012181

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
États-Unis (Ouest) dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
West (U.S.)--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PS169.W4 / F8

Dewey Class. No.: 810.93