The American West
Module Leader: Dr. Jennifer Smyth
Room: 328
Tel: 23457
Email: j.e.smyth@warwick.ac.uk
Course meets weekly, Fridays 10-12, H343. We are meeting at 12 noon on Friday of week one for an hour in H344.
Outline Syllabus:
Term 1
- Week 1: First meeting
- Week 2: James Fenimore Cooper and the Myth of Frontier America
- Week 3: Frontiers of Exclusion: Race in the American West and South [Susanna]
- Week 4: Ramona and the Origins of California Tourism [Emil]
- Week 5: Dime Novels, Buffalo Bill and the Frontier Performance [Matthew]
- Week 6: Reading Week-- no meeting
- Week 7: Western Women [Emma]
- Week 8: Vanishing Americans [Tim]
- Week 9: Modernist Westerns [Nick]
- Week 10: Karl May and the German Western [Caitlin]
Term 2
- Week 11: Imagining the Frontier During the Great Depression [Afra] Please note this seminar will be held in H 3.55
- Week 12: World War II and Aftermath: Redefining Race in the West [David] Meet in H043 from 9-11am
- Week 13: The Old West in a New Context: Noir America [Bianca] Meet in Ramphal 014, 10 am
- Week 14: Empire as a Way of Life [James]
- Week 15: Cold War Westerns [Beth] Meet in MI.F.25A
- Week 16: Reading Week-- no meeting
- Week 17: Mexico in the Imagined West [Alex]
- Week 18: Alaska and the 20th-Century Frontier [Penelope] Meet in MI.F.25A
- Week 19: The Postmodern West [Karim] Meet in MI.A1.28
- Week 20: 'Print the Legend'? [Lee]: All read R. White and P. Limerick's "Frontier in American Culture" {library e-book}, Kerwin Klein's "Frontiers of the Historical Imagination" {closed reserve}, and M. Roche and V. Hosle's "The Man WHo Shot Liberty Valance" [in Clio, 1993]--available online or from me.
