03025nam 2200673Ia 450 991046289460332120200520144314.00-8032-4559-9(CKB)2670000000340286(EBL)1161006(OCoLC)836405115(SSID)ssj0000856648(PQKBManifestationID)11471457(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856648(PQKBWorkID)10818641(PQKB)10536199(MiAaPQ)EBC1161006(MdBmJHUP)muse24600(Au-PeEL)EBL1161006(CaPaEBR)ebr10680791(CaONFJC)MIL471838(EXLCZ)99267000000034028620121024d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading for liberalism[electronic resource] the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West /Stephen J. MexalLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20131 online resource (318 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-4019-8 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.<DIV>Stephen J. Mexal is an associate professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. </DIV>Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American WestAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureCaliforniaHistory and criticismIdentity (Psychology) in literatureLiberalism in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesCaliforniaIn literatureWest (U.S.)In literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Liberalism in literature.Politics and literature810.9/004Mexal Stephen J936280MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462894603321Reading for liberalism2109153UNINA