The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction by Scheick, William J.

The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813113906)

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The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction by Scheick, William J.

The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

$15.00
The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction by Scheick, William J.

The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

$15.00
Format: Hardcover
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The half-blood - half Indian, half white - is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the half-blood was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed ""half Indian, half wh

Author: William J. Scheick
ISBN-10: 0813113903
ISBN-13: 9780813113906
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1979
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By William J. Scheick
By William J. Scheick
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William J. Scheick, J.R. Miliken Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Design in Puritan American Literature and Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America.

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