ENGL 25403 - American West

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

This course considers the power of the West as an imagined construct, an ideologically charged and prophetic "direction" in American cultural production. Beginning with Elizabethan dreams of wealth and haven, as well as Revolutionary and Jeffersonian articulations o f America ? redemptive role in world politics, we focus primarily on nineteenth-century novels and paintings of "westwarding" as an American "manifest destiny." Finally, we turn to the marketing of the West in dime novels, the Wild West Show, Hollywood films, and contemporary television. Throughout the quarter, we follow the challenges posed by recent scholars of the New Western History to boosters of the mythic West. J. Knight. Au

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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