Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States

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Label

Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States

Title remainder

territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States

Statement of responsibility

Stephanie LeMenager

Creator

• LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literature and history -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
• History
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• United States -- Territorial expansion | History -- 19th century
• West (U.S.) -- In literature
• American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Western stories -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Manifest and Other Destinies 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 many wests, defined by international economic networks linking diverse territories and peoples from the Caribbean to the Pacific coast."--Jacket

Member of

• Postwestern horizons

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.3093278

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS374.W4

LC item number

L45 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Postwestern horizons