This exciting collection makes 4 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 towards race and gender. The anthology includes: "Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, " by Ann S. Stephens (1860) "Seth Jones; or The Captives of the Frontier, " by Edward S. Ellis ...
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This exciting collection makes 4 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 towards race and gender. The anthology includes: "Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, " by Ann S. Stephens (1860) "Seth Jones; or The Captives of the Frontier, " by Edward S. Ellis (1860) "Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road, " by Edward J. Wheeler (1877) "Frank Reade, The Inventor, Chasing the James Boys With His Steam Team, " Anonymous (1890) 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, headnotes to the novels, glosses of unfamiliar terms and references, 27 illustrations, and a selected bibliography, this edition makes frequently overlooked dime Westerns readily accessible for serious study, particularly in courses that emphasize a new historicist or cultural studies approach.
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