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Autore |
Mexal Stephen J |
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Titolo |
Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-4962-1134-0 |
0-8032-4559-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - California - History and criticism |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
Liberalism in literature |
Politics and literature - United States |
California In literature |
West (U.S.) In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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<DIV>Stephen J. Mexal is an associate professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. </DIV> |
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