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--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--California--History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Liberalism in literature.

Politics and literature--United States.

Politics and literature.

California--In literature.

California.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV>Stephen J. Mexal is an associate professor of English at California State University, Fullerton. </DIV>

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496211347

1496211340

9780803245594

0803245599

OCLC:

836405115