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1. Myth and literature in a new world
2. Cannibals and Christians : European vs. American Indian culture
3. A home in the heart of darkness : the origins of the Indian war narratives (1625-1682)
4. Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700)
5. A palisade of language : captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693)
6. The hunting of the beast : initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725)
7. The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765)
8. A gallery of types : the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785)
9. Narrative into myth : the emergence of a hero (1784)
10. Evolution of the national hero : farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855)
11. Society and solitude : the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825)
12. The fragmented image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850)
13. Man without a cross : the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841)
14. A pyramid of skulls
2. Cannibals and Christians : European vs. American Indian culture
3. A home in the heart of darkness : the origins of the Indian war narratives (1625-1682)
4. Israel in Babylon : the archetype of the captivity narratives (1682-1700)
5. A palisade of language : captivity mythology and the social crisis (1688-1693)
6. The hunting of the beast : initiation or exorcism? (1675-1725)
7. The search for a hero and the problem of the "natural man" (1700-1765)
8. A gallery of types : the evolution of literary genres and the image of the American (1755-1785)
9. Narrative into myth : the emergence of a hero (1784)
10. Evolution of the national hero : farmer to hunter to Indian (1784-1855)
11. Society and solitude : the frontier myth in romantic literature (1795-1825)
12. The fragmented image : the Boone myth and sectional cultures (1820-1850)
13. Man without a cross : the Leatherstocking myth (1823-1841)
14. A pyramid of skulls