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1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) |
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text file |
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Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Francisco-based literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a lost frontier was an immediate sensation on the East Coast. Due in part to a regional desire to attract settlers and financial investment, the essays and short fiction published in the Overland Monthly often portrayed the American West as a civilized evolution of, and not a savage regression from, eastern bourgeois modernity and democracy. Stories about the American West have for centuries been integral to the way we imagine freedom. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
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Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868) |
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Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868) |
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American literature -- California -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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California. |
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Liberalism in literature.
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Liberalism in literature. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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California -- In literature.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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Politics and literature -- United States.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mexal, Stephen J. Reading for Liberalism : The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, ©2013 9780803240193 |
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9780803245594 (electronic book) |
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0803245599 (electronic book) |
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9780803240193 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0803240198 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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