Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West
The figure of the devil – employed time and again by Americans as a means of culturally construing the perceived enemy Other, as W. Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Wes...
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European Association for American Studies
2014-09-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10335 |