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The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith 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. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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. Henry Nash 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. Moreover, he synthesizes the imaginative expression of Western myths and symbols in literature with their role in contemporary politics, economics, and society, embodied in such forms as the idea of Manifest Destiny, the conflict in the American mind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progress and civilization on the other, the Homestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War.The myths of the American West that found their expression in nineteenth-century words and deeds remain a part of every American's heritage, and Smith, with his insight into their power and significance, makes possible a critical appreciation of that heritage. Table of Contents PROLOGUE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS PART 1: PASSAGE TO INDIA 1. A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the Review A very illuminating study in the history of ideas. Its principal theme is the rise and decline of the conception of the West as an agrarian utopia the myth of the 'garden of the world' that implanted itself so deeply in the imagination of nineteenth-century America. Professor Smith brings to his study an unusual adeptness in the integration of material from different fields, and, what is more important, an admirable feeling for shadings and distinctions, for the complexly organic relationship between empiric fact and what human emotion and imagination would make of it… Virgin Land achieves a kind of clarification of its subject that makes it, one feels, a landmark in the interpretation of the West. * The Nation *Mr. Smith's book is a work of solid scholarship on a facet of our history that has not always been assessed at its proper importance. Here…is the story of all our yesterdays. * Washington Post *To read Virgin Land is to experience a deep intellectual excitement. * Christian Science Monitor *This brilliant interpretative analysis will make a permanent contribution to a better understanding of the role of the West in American history. * Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences * Review Quote To read 'Virgin Land' is to experience a deep intellectual excitement. Details ISBN0674939557 Author Henry Nash Smith Publisher Harvard University Press Series Harvard Paperback, HP 21 Language English ISBN-10 0674939557 ISBN-13 9780674939554 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Illustrations 12 halftones Subtitle The American West as Symbol and Myth Short Title VIRGIN LAND REV/E Pages 336 Edition 2nd DOI 10.1604/9780674939554 UK Release Date 2005-06-15 AU Release Date 2005-06-15 NZ Release Date 2005-06-15 Edition Description Reissued, with a new preface DEWEY 917.8032 Audience Undergraduate Year 1971 Publication Date 1971-10-01 US Release Date 1971-10-01 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENTPeace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:8313293; , Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780674939554, Book Title: Virgin Land, Publication Year: 1970, Type: Textbook, Format: Paperback, Language: English, Publication Name: Virgin Land: the American West As Symbol and Myth, Item Height: 203mm, Item Width: 137mm, Subject: History, Item Weight: 363g, Number of Pages: 336 Pages, Harvard University Press<

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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. Henry Nash Smith shows, w… Mehr…

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. Henry Nash 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. Moreover, he synthesizes the imaginative expression of Western myths and symbols in literature with their role in contemporary politics, economics, and society, embodied in such forms as the idea of Manifest Destiny, the conflict in the American mind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progress and civilization on the other, the Homestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War. The myths of the American West that found their expression in nineteenth-century words and deeds remain a part of every American's heritage, and Smith, with his insight into their power and significance, makes possible a critical appreciation of that heritage. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>U.S. History>U.S. History>U.S. History, Harvard University Press Core >1 >T<

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