Reading for Liberalism : The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West /
Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Francisco-based literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a lost frontier was an immediate sensation on the East Coast. Due in part to a regional desire to attract settlers and financial investment, the essays and short f...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : liberalism and the language of wilderness
- Theoria and liberal governmentality : travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly
- Narrative and liberal selfhood : Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history
- "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated" : social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith
- The limits of liberalism : Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West
- The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism : John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization
- The brute's luck : liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism
- Conclusion : the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West.