American silence /
In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Ge...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
©2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1djmgn3 |
Table of Contents:
- Overture : the unpaintable West
- The inner geology of Clarence King
- Henry Adams at the fair
- The cruelty of seeing
- Some versions of the pastoral
- Sublime America
- Lonesome America.