Anxiety of Influx
Tony Tanner, 18 February 1982
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 241 pp., £15, January 1982,0 521 23924 9 Show More
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 241 pp., £15, January 1982,
Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The 19th-Century Response
by Lee ClarkMitchell.
Princeton, 320 pp., £10.70, July 1981,9780691064611 Show More
by Lee ClarkMitchell.
Princeton, 320 pp., £10.70, July 1981,
“... before it could be experienced and described.’ This fear – this story – is documentated by Lee ClarkMitchell, who is concerned with different phases of the various ‘preservationist’ efforts which took place in America in the 19th century. As is not unusual during imperialist movements, conquest led to a ... ”