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PROLOGUE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS
PART 1: PASSAGE TO INDIA
1. A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the
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Caroline Reisz
reviewed Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth on March 05, 2018 Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Deeply researched, authoritative (if sometimes dry) exploration of the fallacies surrounding the West
Reminds me in some ways of Edmund Wilson's "Patriotic Gore,'' though this is more about history than literature, although literature of the period described (much of it mediocre, though others, like Whitman and Emerson decidedly not) is also included. A final dissection of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier theories is devastating, and the analysis of the tension between the utopian garden myth of agrarian Jeffersonianism and the outcome of the Industrial Revolution is smart, and still relevant. (Among other things, it helps explain, depressingly, the outcome of our most recent election, given outliers' resentment of Eastern "elites.'')
Henry Nash Smith was (way) ahead of his time, and this prescient work is still well worth reading.
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Add Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, 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, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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