In the Work of Their Hands is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930Ohio University Press, 2003 - 299 ページ Westward expansion on the North American continent by European settlers generated a flurry of writings on the frontier experience over the course of a hundred years. Asserting that the dominant ideology of America's Manifest Destiny embodied a tense, often contradictory union of Christian and secular republican views of social progress, In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer investigates the ambivalence of the frontier as it was inscribed with redemptive, historical significance by a host of frontier writers. Enlisting canonical and noncanonical sources, Joel Daehnke examines the manner in which the imagery of the human figure at work and play in the frontier landscape participated in the nationalist, "civilizing" project of westward expansion. While he acknowledges the growing secularization of American life, Professor Daehnke surveys the continuing claims of the Christian redemptive scheme as a powerful symbolic domain for these writers' meditations on social progress and the potential for human perfectibility in the landscapes of the West. Whether discussing the Edenic imagery of women's gardens, the advocacy of an ethics of land use, or the affairs of fortune in the mining districts of Nevada, In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer presents an enlightening reexamination of an American ideology of progress and its enduring fascination with mission, Manifest Destiny, and the ends of history. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer is a welcome addition to the extended library of critical attention to the ideology, history, and literary traditions of the American frontier. |
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... city of its own doings . In these doppel- gänger streets the body of labor roamed naked , and " of a different race ... Virginia City maintained itself in sunlit streets as well as in candlelit caverns , and if the society of labor dwelt ...
... city built on a mountain side , ” and while it is not evident that Virginia City residents cared to split hairs between the affairs of Providence and those of a more secular ideology of Fortune , clearly a guiding animus of some sort ...
... Virginia City denizens , Mark Twain , had celebrated in Roughing It the exuberance of " the ' livest ' town , for its age and population , that America had ever produced . " 27 Twain , who witnessed the beginnings of the early sixties ...
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Necessary Nothings and Minor Deprivations | 18 |
Marvelous Possessions | 57 |
Bonanzas and Borascas Accounts and No Accounts | 104 |
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