{"product_id":"manifest-and-other-destinies-9780803218451","title":"Manifest and Other Destinies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eManifest and Other Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e critiques Manifest Destiny's exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. Stephanie LeMenager considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of U.S. national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century, back when the West was undeniably \u003ci\u003emany wests\u003c\/i\u003e, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMany nineteenth-century novelists, explorers, ideologues, and humorists imagined the United States' destiny in what now seem unfamiliar terms, conceiving of geopolitical configurations or possible worlds at odds with the land hunger and providential mission most clearly associated with Manifest Destiny. \u003ci\u003eManifest and Other Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e draws from an archive of this literature and rhetoric to offer a c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With subtlety, incisiveness, and erudition, Stephanie LeMenager takes the subject of Manifest Destiny to a sophistication never seen before. . . . This book should be required reading for all serious students of nineteenth-century U. S. literature.”—Lawrence Buell, author \u003ci\u003eWriting for an Endangered World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This project is stunningly ambitious, meticulously researched, imaginatively interdisciplinary, and fundamentally radical in its re-reading of the nineteenth century.\"—José Aranda, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen We Arrive: A New Literary history of Mexican America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“LeManager’s innovative approach to geographic spaces as social and political constructs will likely provide fuel for though for anyone studying Twain’s regional writings.”—Jim Zwick, \u003ci\u003eMark Twain Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManifest and Other Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exciting model for denationalizing American studies. . . . LeMenager's strategy of identifying environments that as commercial contact zones once resisted national narratives of settlement brings together in a striking way materialist aspects of New Western history, ecocriticism, and efforts to globalize American literature.\"—Gretchen Murphy, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In LeMenager’s \u003ci\u003eManifest and Other Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e scholars of the American culture can trace contemporary controversy over multi-formity to the very formation of the nation.”—\u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“LeMenager reveals a new significance to the unfamiliar while revivifying and reconfiguring our understandings of the pillars of canonical American literary study.”—\u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stephanie LeMenager’s \u003ci\u003eManifest and Other Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e presents a richly detailed account of the points of intersection between the regional and the transitional scales.”—Hsuan L. Hsu, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405242310999,"sku":"9780803218451","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manifest-and-other-destinies-9780803218451","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}