The American Elsewhere : Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion

Jimmy L. Bryan

ISBN 10: 0700624783 / ISBN 13: 9780700624782

Edité par University Press Of Kansas Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - A study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the ''adventurelogues'' of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into ''elsewheres,'' distant and dangerous.

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• Titre: The American Elsewhere : Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion
• Éditeur: University Press Of Kansas Sep 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0700624783
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780700624782
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 157 H x 33 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 33 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 760 grammes

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Synopsis

As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism.

A study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the "adventurelogues" of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into "elsewheres," distant and dangerous. With their words and art, they entered these unfamiliar realms that had fostered caution and apprehension, and they reimagined them as regions that awakened romantic and reckless optimism. In doing so, Bryan shows, adventurers created the figure of the remarkable American male that generated a wide appeal and encouraged a personal investment in nationhood among their audiences.

Bryan provides a thorough reading of a wide variety of sources--including correspondence, travel accounts, fiction, poetry, artwork, and material culture--and finds that adventurers told stories and shaped images that beguiled a generation of Americans into believing in their own exceptionality and in their destiny to conquer the continent.

À propos de l'auteur

Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. is associate professor of history at Lamar University. He is the editor of The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare and the author of More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane.