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Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
- Title
- Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / Stephen J. Mexal.
- Author
- Mexal, Stephen J.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 301 p.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
- Subjects
- West (U.S.) > In literature
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Liberalism in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Politics and literature > United States
- Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
- American literature > California > History and criticism
- California > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5095
- ISBN
- 9780803240193 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803240198 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012038939
- OCLC
- 815043308
- Author
- Mexal, Stephen J.
- Title
- Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / Stephen J. Mexal.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5095