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Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark 2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands 3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory 4. Emerson's 1830s 5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy 6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons Notes Bibliography Index

West of Emerson

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 06/01/2003
      ISBN13: 9780520231856, 978-0520231856
      ISBN10: 0520231856
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark 2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands 3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory 4. Emerson's 1830s 5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy 6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons Notes Bibliography Index

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