Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic

Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West

Although names such as Daniehical writingl Boone, Black Hawk, and "Davy" Crockett are familiar to most Americans, the historical, political, and literary contexts that produced the mythical images of these figures are unfamiliar to most outside academia. In Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833, Michael A. Lofaro complies, annotates, and analyzes these three (auto) biographical writings published in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1833- The Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, or Black Hawk, and The Life of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee- to reveal how the portrayals of Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett revised the idea of the "frontier hero." By placing them together in dialogue through the scholarly reediting of their tests, Lofaro demonstrates that these works exemplify, typify, and epitomize masculinity, burgeoning capitalism, and Jacksonian democracy, probe beliefs in race and class, and provide nothing short of a deep dissection of the frontier mentality of the antebellum period. Additionally, the reception of these works influenced the way in which nineteenth-century Americans understood and perceived manifest destiny, the removal of Native Americans from their homelands to the west of the Mississippi River, and the waning concept of the "American Frontier." With its great scope and insight, this publication creates connections among many academica disciplines, including colonial America, Jacksonian America, Native American studies, as well as literary and folklore studies.
Country USA
Brand Univ Tennessee Press
Manufacturer Univ Tennessee Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-06-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781621904861

Country	USA
Brand	Univ Tennessee Press
Manufacturer	Univ Tennessee Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-06-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781621904861

Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West