The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682–1826

1. The American Frontier Hero in Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration
Denise Mary MacNeil

2. Mythological Roots of the American Frontier Hero
Denise Mary MacNeil

3. Mary Rowlandson, Puritan Hero
Denise Mary MacNeil

4. Mothering the Adamic Hero
Denise Mary MacNeil

5. Transcending Gendered English American Social Positions: Gender and Racial Multiplicity in The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
Denise Mary MacNeil

6. Dancing between Ferocity and Delicacy in Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
Denise Mary MacNeil

7. Reconstituting the American Frontier Hero through James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo in The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
Denise Mary MacNeil

8. Mary Rowlandson in Jeans: The John Ford/John Wayne film The Searchers and the Mary Rowlandson Archetype
Denise Mary MacNeil

Avainsanat: Literature, North American Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Emotion