Paper instructions:
Both Charles Brockden Brown’s novel, Edgae Huntlyâ€, and Martin Scorcese’s flim,†Taxi Driverâ€, have been describe as revisionist (i.e., critical) versions of American frontier mythology (or, in Slotkin’s term, regeneration through violenceâ€). Attending to the the historical and generic differences between an early American novel and a late twentieth-century flim, explore how these works revise said mythology, as define by by Slotkin (and/or Barnard and Shapiro)