Myth and literature in the New World

Cannibals and Christians: European vs. American Indian culture

Home in the heart of darkness: the origin of the Indian War narratives (1625-1682)

Israel in Babylon: the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700)

A palisade of language: captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693)

The hunting of the beast: initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725)

The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765)

A gallery of types: the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785)

Narrative into myth: the emergence of a hero (1784)

Evolution of the national hero: farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855)

Society and solitude: the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825)

The fragmented image: the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850)

Man without a cross: the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841)

A pyramid of skulls.