Hazard, Lucy Lockwood,  1890- <br/><br/>
The frontier in American literature. 

 - New York,  F. Ungar Pub. Co.  [1961] 
 - 308 pages  21 cm. 
 - American classics .
 - American classics. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>I. Puritan frontier -- Chronicles of old New England ; Motives of the Puritan migration ; Character of the Puritan emigrants ; Puritan en voyage ; Finding of the frontier ; Puritan community : attitude toward the Indians ; Theocracy ; Intolerance ; Superstition ; Introspection ; Repressions ; Dissensions ; Individualism ; Distinguishing features of the New England frontier ; Hawthorne : the reluctant Puritan : the timid pioneer -- II. Southern frontier : a study in Romanticism -- Plantation and frontier ; Captain John Smith : Elizabethan imperialist ; Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, esquire ; Congressman Davy Crockett : the backwoods politician ; Southern frontier in American literature ; Cult of the colonel ; Fad of the primitive ; Escape to Poictesme -- III. Hunter and trapper : heroes of the fur trade -- New types of frontiersmen ; James Fenimore Cooper ; Washington Irving ; John G. Neihardt ; Fate of frontier characters -- IV. Golden age of transcendentalism -- Influence of the frontier on transcendentalism ; Frontier elements in transcendentalism ; Transcendental idealization of frontier traits ; Transcendental recognition of regional pioneering ; Transcendentalists as spiritual pioneers ; Thoreau, the intensive pioneer ; Walt Whitman : the afterglow of the golden age -- V. Frontier of '49 -- Literary frontiers ; Historical fidelity of Western literature ; Bret Harte, melodramatist ; Heart of the West ; Mark Twain : Wild West humorist of the Pacific slope ; Psychic West ; Frontier and local color -- VI. Gilded age of industrial pioneering -- Exploitation of natural resources : the masters of capital ; Andrew Carnegie : triumphant democracy ; Mark Twain : son and satirist of the gilded age ; Robert Herrick : the story of a self-made senator ; Theodore Dreiser : Cowperwood, the creature of chemistry -- VII. Frontier and the nester -- Frontier and farm ; Farm in American literature ; Hector St. John Crevecoeur ; Hamlin Garland ; Frank Norris ; Willa Cather -- VIII. Coming age of spiritual pioneering. 
<br/><br/>
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>60013981  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919. <br/>Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938. <br/>Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919. <br/>Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. <br/>Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. <br/>Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. <br/>Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940. <br/>Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. <br/>Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938. <br/>Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. <br/>Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. <br/>Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. <br/>Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. <br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--United States.<br/>Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.<br/>Littérature américaine--ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)<br/>American literature.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life.<br/>Geschichte<br/>Literatur<br/>Vie des pionniers dans la littérature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>Frontier<br/>USA.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS169.F7  / H3 1961 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9093