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

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-286) and index.
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ISBN9780803240193 (cloth : alk. paper)