Virgin Land - Henry Nash Smith
The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard Paperback, Hp 21)
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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 ...
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2005 Uitgever: Harvard University Press 328 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674939557 ISBN-13: 9780674939554Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!