Reading for Liberalism : The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mexal, Stephen J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
Politics and literature.
Literature.
Liberalism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Liberalisme dans la litterature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States.
American literature > California > History and criticism.
West United States.
United States.
California.
Californie > Dans la litterature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
California > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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