Reading the West : an anthology of dime Westerns
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Reading the West : an anthology of dime Westerns
（Bedford cultural editions）
Bedford Books, c1997
- : pbk
- : hc
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Selected bibliography: p. 507-516
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780312137618
Description
'Dime Westerns' were tremendously popular reading in nineteenth-century America, and are currently of major interest to literary scholars. Three of the best-known dime westerns are reprinted here, along with a substantial introduction giving the historical and cultural background to help students understand their mass appeal and their relationship to classic nineteenth-century American literature.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Reading the West - Chronology - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
- A.S.Stephens - Seth Jones: Or, The Captives of the Frontier
- E.S.Ellis - Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road
- E.J.Wheeler - Franke Reade, the Inventor, Chasing the James Boys with his Steam Train
- Anonymous - Selected Bibliography
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: hc ISBN 9780312163730
Description
This new collection makes four previously hard-to-find dime Westerns easily available to readers who wish to enrich their understanding of nineteenth-century American literature. These varied novels provide a new and important context for examining classic, widely taught authors and tell us much about nineteenth-century attitudes toward race and gender. With an introduction that critically examines the historical and cultural background of the dime Western, a chronology of relevant background information on historical figures and events, glosses of unfamiliar terms and references, numerous illustrations, and a selected bibliography, this edition makes frequently overlooked dime Westerns readily accessible for serious study.
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