Heartless Immensity : Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America.
Title:
Heartless Immensity : Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America.
Author:
Baker, Anne.
ISBN:
9780472025763
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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