Quest West : American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations /

Few spaces remain as central to American consciousness as the western frontier. The vast territory, which for generations fueled the desires and conquests of artists, philosophers, and politicians alike, now offers new discoveries in Richard Lehan's Quest West. Through an intellectual and cultu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lehan, Richard Daniel, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geistesleben
Amerikanisches Englisch
Literatur
Popular culture.
Mass media.
Literature.
American literature.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Popular culture > West (U.S.)
Popular culture > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
USA > Weststaaten
West United States.
United States.
West (U.S.) > In art.
West (U.S.) > In mass media.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Art.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Few spaces remain as central to American consciousness as the western frontier. The vast territory, which for generations fueled the desires and conquests of artists, philosophers, and politicians alike, now offers new discoveries in Richard Lehan's Quest West. Through an intellectual and cultural history of the frontier experience, Lehan details the transformations of ideas and literary forms that occurred as the country expanded to the west and demonstrates how the wilderness, and then by turn the urban frontier, represent an ideological summary of the nation itself. His study involves the f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780807153925

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