Heartless Immensity : Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America.
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country's constantly fl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Michigan Press
2010.
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