Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States /

Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968-
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
Description:	viii, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Postwestern horizons
Subject:	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and history -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century. American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism. Western stories -- History and criticism. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. American fiction. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. Literature. Literature and history. Territorial expansion. Western stories. West (U.S.) -- In literature. United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century. United States. United States, West. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5540187

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ISBN:	0803229496 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-274) and index.

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.