Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States /
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Author / Creator: | LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968- |
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Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. |
Description: | viii, 285 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Postwestern horizons |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5540187 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : manifest and other destinies
- Inventing the American desert
- 1. The American desert, empire anxiety, and historical romance
- 2. Desert and world
- 3. The postwestern space of the sea
- The culture of water
- 4. The nation's mouth
- 5. Mark Twain's manifest and other destinies
- 6. Epilogue.