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Reading for liberalism the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West

Title
Reading for liberalism [electronic resource] : 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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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
  • Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
  • American literature > California > History and criticism
  • Liberalism in literature
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Politics and literature > United States
  • American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • California > In literature
  • West (U.S.) > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
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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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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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