Blood Meridian (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Western fiction
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Southwest, Mexico or Mexicans, Westerns, Outlaws, Massacres
- Locales: Mexico, Southwest (U.S.)
With Blood Meridian: Or, The Evening Redness in the West, a novel of epic proportions and startling originality, McCarthy shifts his eye from Tennessee to the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The novel, set in the 1840's, when the border between the United States and Mexico was under dispute, is an orgy of violence, vain striving, and desperate marauding. It gives form to the frontier theory, the idea of manifest destiny, which inspired Americans to seek dominion over the land and to expel, murder, or subjugate those peoples who stood in the way of their dominion over the...
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