Women and Western American Literature

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Table of Contents i
• Preface v
• Notes x
• Acknowledgements xi
• I - Shaping the Western Frontier: Women in History *
• The Civilizers: Women's Organizations and Western American Literature 3
• Notes 14
• Marie Louise Ritter: the Pioneer Woman in Fact and Fiction 17
• Notes 26
• A Study of Feminism as a Motif in "A Journey to Pike's Peak and New Mexico," by Julia Archibald Holmes 28
• Notes 38
• Reluctant Pioneers 40
• Notes 49
• II - From Fact to Fiction: Myth as Filter 52
• Women in Western American Fiction: Images, or Real Women? 55
• Notes 68
• Sacajawea of Myth and History 70
• Notes 86
• Miscegenation in Popular Western History and Fiction 90
• Notes 98
• The Emergence of Helen Chalmers 100
• Notes 113
• The Western Roots of Feminism in Agne Smedley's Daughter of Earth 114
• Notes 123
• Pioneer Women in the Works of Two Montana Authors: Interviews Wih Dorothy M. Johnson and A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 124
• Notes 131
• III - Images in Transition and Conflict 132
• Hamlin Garland's Feminism 135
• Notes 158
• The Virginian and Antonia Shimerda: Different Sides of the Western Coin 162
• Notes 178
• Beret as the Norse Mythological Goddess Freya/Gerthr 179
• Notes 192
• Marian Forrester and Moll Flanders: Fortunes and Misfortunes 194
• Notes 210
• Wright Morris, Women, and American Culture 212
• The Young Girl in the West: Disenchantment in Jean Stafford's Short Fiction 230
• Notes 243
• IV - Shaping Imaginative Frontiers 244
• Notes 265
• Where the West Begins: Constance Rourke's Images of Her Own Frontierland 267
• Notes 281
• Pioneering the Imagination: Eudora Welty's the Robber Bridegroom 283
• Notes 295
• The Moral in Austin's the Land of Little Rain 297
• Notes 310
• A Laddered, Rain-Bearing Rug: Paula Gunn Allen's Poetry 311
• Notes 326
• Contributors' Notes 327

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