Reading for Liberalism The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West /
Mexal, Stephen J.
Reading for Liberalism The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West / [Recurso electrónico] : Stephen J. Mexal. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (336 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
9780803245594 0803245599
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Politics and literature--United States.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberalism in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--California
West (U.S.)--In literature.
California--In literature
Electronic books.
PS283.C2 / M49 2013
810.9/004
Reading for Liberalism The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West / [Recurso electrónico] : Stephen J. Mexal. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (336 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
9780803245594 0803245599
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Politics and literature--United States.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Liberalism in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--California
West (U.S.)--In literature.
California--In literature
Electronic books.
PS283.C2 / M49 2013
810.9/004
2251-8215
