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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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: An Empire in Denial
- 1. Imagining National Form
- 2. Mapping and Measuring with Ahab and Wilkes
- 3. From Salt Lake to Walden Pond
- 4. Word, Image, and National Geography
- 5. Views from the Edge of Empire
- 6. Body Size and the Body Politic
- 7. Geography, Pedagogy, and Race
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.