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• catalog abstract "In Narrating Discovery Bruce Greenfield chronicles the development of the antebellum Euro-American discovery narrative. These narratives depicted the Euro-American advance westward not as a violent intrusion into occupied territories but as an inevitable by-product of science and civilization. Despite the centrality of indigenous peoples in the frontier narratives, the landscape was nevertheless sketched in biblical terms as "a terrestrial paradise ... unpeopled and unexplored," as writers insisted upon seeing "emptiness as the essential quality of the land." Beginning with the British writers Hearne, Mackenzie, and Henry, Greenfield then traces the early American narratives of Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Fremont, demonstrating how these agents of the first New World nation-state brought a distinct imperial mentality to the frontier, viewing it both as foreign and as part of their home. But Romantic writers such as Cooper, Irving, Poe, and Thoreau felt ill at ease with the colonialist discourse they inherited, and Greenfield shows how to varying degrees each altered a discourse openly based on subjugation to one highlighting profoundly personal and aesthetic responses to the American landscape. The book concludes with an illuminating discussion of Thoreau, who transformed the discovery narrative from its origins in conflict and institutional authority into the "expression of personal identity with the continent as a symbol of American potential." Written with clarity and insight, Narrating Discovery brings a fresh perspective to current debates over who "discovered" America and recovers the complexity of frontier experience through a searching look at some of the vivid narrative accounts.".
• catalog contributor b3797992.
• catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "America In literature.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "But Romantic writers such as Cooper, Irving, Poe, and Thoreau felt ill at ease with the colonialist discourse they inherited, and Greenfield shows how to varying degrees each altered a discourse openly based on subjugation to one highlighting profoundly personal and aesthetic responses to the American landscape. The book concludes with an illuminating discussion of Thoreau, who transformed the discovery narrative from its origins in conflict and institutional authority into the "expression of personal identity with the continent as a symbol of American potential." Written with clarity and insight, Narrating Discovery brings a fresh perspective to current debates over who "discovered" America and recovers the complexity of frontier experience through a searching look at some of the vivid narrative accounts.".
• catalog description "In Narrating Discovery Bruce Greenfield chronicles the development of the antebellum Euro-American discovery narrative. These narratives depicted the Euro-American advance westward not as a violent intrusion into occupied territories but as an inevitable by-product of science and civilization. Despite the centrality of indigenous peoples in the frontier narratives, the landscape was nevertheless sketched in biblical terms as "a terrestrial paradise ... unpeopled and unexplored," as writers insisted upon seeing "emptiness as the essential quality of the land." Beginning with the British writers Hearne, Mackenzie, and Henry, Greenfield then traces the early American narratives of Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Fremont, demonstrating how these agents of the first New World nation-state brought a distinct imperial mentality to the frontier, viewing it both as foreign and as part of their home.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Trading and telling : discovery and the British fur trade -- Traveling for history -- Discovery and narrative structure in Samuel Hearne's Journey to the northern ocean -- Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages : discovery and the fur trade entrepreneur -- Alexander Henry's Travels and adventures : narrating captivity -- Early Western travels and the American self -- Lewis and Clark's History : the search for authority -- Zebulon Pike and John Charles Frémont : pioneers of popular self-discovery -- Washington Irving : historian of American discovery -- Irving's Columbus -- Irving on the prairies -- Irving's discovery of the Far West -- Poe and Thoreau : the romantic discovery narrative -- Discovery and violence : Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Thoreau's discovery of America : a nineteenth-century first contact.".
• catalog extent "x, 249 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0231079966 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Social foundations of aesthetic forms series.".
• catalog isPartOf "The Social foundations of aesthetic forms".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
• catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "America In literature.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "810.9/003 20".
• catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Explorers in literature.".
• catalog subject "Geographical discoveries in literature.".
• catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
• catalog subject "PS217.D57 G73 1992".
• catalog subject "Romanticism United States.".
• catalog subject "Travel in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Trading and telling : discovery and the British fur trade -- Traveling for history -- Discovery and narrative structure in Samuel Hearne's Journey to the northern ocean -- Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages : discovery and the fur trade entrepreneur -- Alexander Henry's Travels and adventures : narrating captivity -- Early Western travels and the American self -- Lewis and Clark's History : the search for authority -- Zebulon Pike and John Charles Frémont : pioneers of popular self-discovery -- Washington Irving : historian of American discovery -- Irving's Columbus -- Irving on the prairies -- Irving's discovery of the Far West -- Poe and Thoreau : the romantic discovery narrative -- Discovery and violence : Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Thoreau's discovery of America : a nineteenth-century first contact.".
• catalog title "Narrating discovery : the romantic explorer in American literature, 1790-1855 / Bruce Greenfield.".
• catalog type "text".