Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing by Stephen J. Mexal

By Stephen J. Mexal

Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was once a San Francisco–based literary journal whose mixture of humor, pathos, and romantic nostalgia for a misplaced frontier used to be a right away sensation at the East Coast. Due partly to a local wish to allure settlers and fiscal funding, the essays and brief fiction released within the Overland Monthly usually portrayed the yankee West as a civilized evolution of, and never a savage regression from, jap bourgeois modernity and democracy.

Stories in regards to the American West have for hundreds of years been indispensable to the best way we think freedom, the person, and the chance for trade political realities. Reading for Liberalism examines the moving literary and narrative building of liberal selfhood in California within the overdue 19th century via case experiences of a few western American writers who wrote for the Overland Monthly, together with Noah Brooks, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, Jack London, John Muir, and Frank Norris, between others. Reading for Liberalism argues that Harte, the magazine’s founding editor, and the opposite participants of the Overland workforce critiqued and reimagined the customarily invisible cloth of yank freedom. Reading for Liberalism uncovers and examines within the textual content of the Overland Monthly the connection among barren region, literature, race, and the construction of person freedom in past due nineteenth-century California. 

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