Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
Autore | Mexal Stephen J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/004 |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8032-4559-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462894603321 |
Mexal Stephen J
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading for liberalism [[electronic resource] ] : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / / Stephen J. Mexal |
Autore | Mexal Stephen J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/004 |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN |
1-4962-1134-0
0-8032-4559-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786114803321 |
Mexal Stephen J
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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