Virgin Land

Henry Nash Smith

Original title: Virgin land

earliest edition we have, 1978 Harvard University Press, 2005 paperback 328 pages

A Harvard paperback, HP — book 21

The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement s...

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Virgin Land paperback · 2005 · Harvard University Press · 328 pages · 9780674939554
Chu nu di: Zuo wei xiang zheng he shen hua di Meiguo xi bu = Virgin land edition · 1991 · Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press · 335 pages · 9787810096386
Virgin land edition · 1978 · Harvard University Press · 305 pages

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