Reid, Margaret

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America / Margaret Reid. - 1 online resource (xxxii, 259 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.

Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion : the storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas.

Open Access

9780814273371 0814273378




Wister, Owen, 1860-1938. Virginian.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Spy.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.


Culture in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.
Storytelling--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and history--History--United States--19th century.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PS374.H5 / R45 2004

813/.309358