Reading for liberalism
Subtitle: the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
By: Stephen J. Mexal
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780803240193
Subjects: In literature; Politics and literature; Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868); Liberalism in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Other titles: Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: liberalism and the language of wilderness; title: Theoria and liberal governmentality: travel in Bret Harte's Overland monthly; title: Narrative and liberal selfhood: Noah Brooks and the aesthetics of history; title: "With which it was my fortune to be affiliated": social contingency in the life and poetry of Ina Coolbrith; title: The limits of liberalism: Chinese, Indians, and the politics of cosmopolitanism in the West; title: The greening of nineteenth-century liberalism: John Muir's wilderness and the discourse of civilization; title: The brute's luck: liberal egalitarianism and the politics of literary naturalism; title: Conclusion: the Overland group, luck, and the writing of the West.