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Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / Stephen J. Mexal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mexal, Stephen J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--California--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868).
- Liberalism in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Politics and literature.
- California--In literature.
- California.
- West (U.S.)--In literature.
- West (U.S.).
- Politics and literature--United States.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803240193
- 0803240198
- OCLC:
- 815043308
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