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Parker, Robert Dale D'Errico, Jon Mark 2015-09-25T20:15:51Z 2015-09-25T20:15:51Z 10000-01-01 2000 2000 In the American Studies tradition, the frontier has long been equated with unfettered individualism---imagined in symbolic opposition to the restraint on individual action required by community. The current study reconsiders the role of literature in promoting frontier individualism at the expense of frontier community. I argue that the early-industrial trial preference for frontier individualism masks an older commitment to community building, that the tension between community and individualism carries a strong class component, and that the dominant nineteenth-century aesthetic response to the frontier promotes the agenda of economic elitism. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9971060.pdf: 9595596 bytes, checksum: 7c1858a7f82aa91481ceea27ff5bd6eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82792 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 264 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81511 (MiAaPQ)AAI9971060 eng American Studies Wilderness and Wall Street: Privilege, Community, and Restraint in Literature of the New York Frontier text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.