The American Elsewhere : Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion
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| Title: | The American Elsewhere : Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Jr., Jimmy L. Bryan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Adventure stories, American--History and criticism, Masculinity--West (U.S.)--History, Adventure and adventurers--West (U.S.), Frontier and pioneer life in literature, Masculinity in popular culture--United States, Masculinity in literature |
| Categories: | HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Social History, |
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