Historical Background: The West and the World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. On the Series V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Contents XI
5. Abstract XIII
6. Introduction: Imagining the American West 1
7. Historical Background: The West and the World 19
8. Methods and Theories: Doing Over Geography 47
9. Spatialization Processes: Towards a New Language of Space in Literary and Cultural Studies 57
10. Chapter 1: Integrating the Old Northwest through Utopian, Regionalist, Feminist, and Local Colour Discourse 67
11. Chapter 2: The Incommensurable West between Integration and Separation 139
12. Conclusion: Reimagining the American West 261
13. List of Abbreviations 267
14. List of Figures 269
15. Bibliography 271
16. Index 291