General Note:
Originally published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1973.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-622) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Myth and literature in a new world -- 2. Cannibals and Christians : European vs. American Indian culture -- 3. A home in the heart of darkness : the origins of the Indian war narratives (1625-1682) -- 4. Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700) -- 5. A palisade of language : captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693) -- 6. The hunting of the beast : initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725) -- 7. The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765) -- 8. A gallery of types : the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785) -- 9. Narrative into myth : the emergence of a hero (1784) -- 10. Evolution of the national hero : farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855) -- 11. Society and solitude : the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825) -- 12. The fragmented image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850) -- 13. Man without a cross : the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841) -- 14. A pyramid of skulls
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