Agent of empire : William Walker and the imperial self in American literature
"Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. The leader of several fractious, bloody forays into Mexico and Central America in the 1850s, Walker was executed in 1860 by a Honduran firing squad. Brady Harrison looks at a dozen works, such as Bret Harte's novel The Crusade of the Excelsior (1887) and Alex Cox's film Walker (1987), to show how Walker's life and legacy have been explored in journalism, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema for more than a century
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 238 pages ; 24 cm
9780820325446, 0820325449
53356528
The life, death, and literary resurfacings of William Walker, filibuster
"Tossing creation like a bauble" : Walker and Emerson
"What is good for them" : Harte and the mercenary romance
The spectacular empire : Davis and Roosevelt
Soldiers of misfortune : Davis and O. Henry
"The female of the species" : Teilhet and Cardenal
Walker, with a vengeance : Cox and Didion
William Walker, redux?