Frontier Fictions Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt /

• Main Author: Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature .; America-Literatures.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; North American Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement. Reading canonical texts such as Last of the Mohicans and Backwoods of Canada against u...