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Edward Watts

Author of The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860

8 Works 47 Members

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Edward Watts is professor of English at Michigan State University

Includes the names: editor Edward Watts, Professor Edward S. Watts, Professor Edward S. Watts

Works by Edward Watts

The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 (2002) 15 copies

In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860 (2006) 9 copies

Mapping Region in Early American Writing (2015) 7 copies

Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic (1998) 6 copies

An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture (2002) 4 copies

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011) 3 copies

Colonizing the Past: Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing (2020) 2 copies

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville (English Edition) (2025) 1 copy

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$ American literature - West (US) (1) $ Frontier and pioneer life - West (US) - History - Sources (1) $ West (US) - Literary collections (1) 19th century (2) ADD A ZILLION AUTHORS (1) American history (2) American literature (4) Americana (1) BB009 (1) Box 60 (1) Colonialism/Empire (1) February 2015 (1) history (3) literary history (2) memory (1) Old Northwest (1) Teaching/Writing (1) united states-19th century (1) White Adult Fiction- General (1) Ŧ Address before the Legislature of Pennsylvania (1849) (1) Ŧ Charlotte Ryan (1853) (1) Ŧ from "A Missionary Tour" (1843) (1) Ŧ from "History of the Ojibway People" (1852; 1855) (1) Ŧ from "The Emigrants" (1793) (1) Ŧ Hanging the Gamblers (c. 1868; 1885) (1) Ŧ Shocco Jones on the Mississippi (c. 1868; 1885) (1) Ŧ The Bar of the South-West (1853) (1) Ŧ The Big Bear of Arkansas (1841; 1854) (1) Ŧ The Northwest Ordinance; (1787) (1) Ŧ The Protective Policy on Literature (1859) (1)

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