Manifest and Other Destinies - Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States

Informationen zum Autor Stephanie LeMenager is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext Stephanie LeMenager is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Zusammenfassung Critiques "Manifest Destiny's" exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. This work considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of US national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephanie LeMenager
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780803218451
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1845-1
• Seiten: 286
• Serien: Postwestern Horizons; Postwestern Horizons
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft