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Democracy and the novel: Popular resistance to classic American writers

Smith, Henry Nash

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

VERY GOOD softcover, clean NEW text, 1981 Oxfordsolid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; age browning WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601605 Henry Nash Smith's new book carries on his scrupulous survey of our national dreams, myths and fictions, and of the divisions of taste, sentiment, and class they suggest .... What he does is fresh and new because he has extraordinary reserves of historical knowledge to bring to bear. "Democracy and the Novel probably constitutes the most seminal book on American literature to be published in the last two decades."We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers

Selected Mark Twain-Howells Letters 1872-1910

Gibson, William M.

Anderson, Frederick

Essays & Correspondence

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

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. 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.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth

History

Americas

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.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard Paperback, HP 21)

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