Virgin Land The American West As Symbol and Myth

Name: Virgin Land The American West As Symbol and Myth
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ISBN: 9780674939554

ISBN-10: 0674939557

ISBN-13: 9780674939554

Edition: 2nd 1950

Authors: Henry Nash Smith

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The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History.…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1950
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English



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