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Book Title
Virgin Land : the American West As Symbol and Myth
ISBN
0674939557
Item Length
8 in
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
2
Publication Year
1971
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Henry Nash Smith
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), American / General, American / Regional, United States / General
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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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, 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.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674939557
ISBN-13
9780674939554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
768197

Product Key Features

Edition
2
Author
Henry Nash Smith
Book Title
Virgin Land : the American West As Symbol and Myth
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), American / General, American / Regional, United States / General
Publication Year
1971
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz

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Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
F591.S65 1971
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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., 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., This brilliant interpretative analysis will make a permanent contribution to a better understanding of the role of the West in American history., 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., 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., 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.
Table of Content
PROLOGUE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORIGINS PART 1: PASSAGE TO INDIA 1. A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the
Copyright Date
1950
Lccn
75-030212
Dewey Decimal
978

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