- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 301 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Reading for liberalism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reading for liberalism (Online)
- Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012038939
- OCLC
- ssj0000856648
- Author
Mexal, Stephen J.
- Title
Reading for liberalism [electronic resource] : 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.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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