Save Whom from Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stuck's The Ascent of Denali

Authors

Peter L. Bayers Dr., Fairfield UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Abstract

A literary criticism of the book "The Ascent of Denali (1914)" by Hudson Stuck is presented. It explores the impact of the closing of the frontier and the industrial modernization of the U.S. wherein frontier mythology became important to the well-being of the males of the progressive era. It notes that Stuck has undermined and destabilizes frontier ideologies by sympathizing with the Natives of Alaska.

Comments

Copyright © 2001 Oxford University Press for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

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Publication Title

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment

Repository Citation

Bayers, Peter L. Dr., "Save Whom from Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stuck's The Ascent of Denali" (2001). English Faculty Publications. 90.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-facultypubs/90

Published Citation

Bayers, Peter. "Save Whom from Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stuck's The Ascent of Denali,” in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Summer 2001, 8(2), pp. 39-52.

DOI

10.1093/isle/8.2.39

Peer Reviewed