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Examining the origins of American literature, this text shifts the context from the East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. It tracks down the texts by explorers of the far West that informed 'Nature', Emerson's most famous essay, and shows how Westerns helped create 'Easterns'.Fresonke, Kris is the author of 'West of Emerson The Design of Manifest Destiny', published 2002 under ISBN 9780520231856 and ISBN 0520231856.
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