How long does it take to read Regeneration Through Violence?
the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860
Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin takes about 12 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1973. 670 pages, about 184,250 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville - Slotkin traces the full development of this myth."--Jacket.
Subjects: History and criticism, American National characteristics, Mythologie dans la littérature, Américains, Littérature américaine
