West of Emerson - The Design of Manifest Destiny

Informationen zum Autor Kris Fresonke is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University. Klappentext "Aligning Emerson and Thoreau with exploration narratives by Lewis and Clark! Pike! and others! West of Emerson realigns the standard map of regional American literature. Focusing on New England! it reorients our understanding of the literature of the west. Fresonke writes with grace and wit and sees the rhetoric of both manifest destiny and New England Transcendentalism with new eyes."-Brook Thomas! author of American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract Zusammenfassung Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark 2. Zebulon Pike! Federalist Gloom! and Western Lands 3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory 4. Emerson's 1830s 5. Emerson's Nature : West of Ecstasy 6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Kris Fresonke, Fresonke Kris
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2003
• EAN: 9780520231856
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23185-6
• No. of pages: 213
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, American English, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, The Americas