TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mexal,Stephen J.
TI  - Reading for liberalism: the Overland monthly and the writing of the modern American West 
SN  - 9780803245594
AV  - PS283 .R433 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Overland monthly (San Francisco, Calif. : 1868)
KW  - American literature
KW  - California
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Liberalism in literature
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th century
KW  - In literature
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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