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Author:

Mexal, Stephen J.

Title:

Reading for liberalism : the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West / Stephen J. Mexal.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--California--History and criticism.
Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
Liberalism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
California--In literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.
Politics and literature--United States.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Overland monthly--(Zeitschrift.
Literatur.
Kalifornien.
Liberalismus.
Freiheit.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) 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.

ISBN:

0803240198 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803240193 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)815043308

LCCN:

2012038939

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)