West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny

West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny
ISBN-10
0520225090
ISBN-13
9780520225091
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
201
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Kris Fresonke

Description

"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"

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