LEADER 03025nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910462894603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8032-4559-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340286 035 $a(EBL)1161006 035 $a(OCoLC)836405115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000856648 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11471457 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856648 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818641 035 $a(PQKB)10536199 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1161006 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1161006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10680791 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL471838 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340286 100 $a20121024d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading for liberalism$b[electronic resource] $ethe Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West /$fStephen J. Mexal 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-4019-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a