Failed Frontiersmen

White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: James J. Donahue ISBN: 9780813936840
Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication: February 4, 2015
Imprint: University of Virginia Press Language: English
Author: James J. Donahue
ISBN: 9780813936840
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication: February 4, 2015
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Language: English

James Donahue shows how contemporary American male writers in the romance tradition engage with frontier mythology and expose its failure to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the wake of the 1960s.

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James Donahue shows how contemporary American male writers in the romance tradition engage with frontier mythology and expose its failure to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the wake of the 1960s.

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