Reading for liberalism the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West

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

Author/creator	Mexal, Stephen J.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
Description	xiii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868) American literature--California --History and criticism. Liberalism in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Politics and literature--United States. American literature--19th century --History and criticism. California--In literature West (U.S.)--In literature.

Portion of title	Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012038939
ISBN	9780803240193 (cloth : alk. paper)

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