Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West

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287 Afghanistan, vii, x, 229 agency, 115, 121, 194, 225; literary naturalists on, 199, 203, 204, 208, 210; and selfhood, 31, 220, 222 allegory, 54, 68, 91 Allin, Craig W., 262n30 Alta California, 72, 237n61, 246n19 alterity, 63, 71, 144, 154, 182; Brooks on, 84–85, 86 Ankersmit, F. R., 69 anthropocentrism, 173, 174, 183 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 145 Appletons’ Journal, 98 Arneson, Richard, 195 Ashworth, Hamilton, vii assimilation: Chinese and, 128, 133, 152, 155; cosmopolitanism and, 148; Indians and, 132, 133, 144, 154–56, 258n84; liberalism and, 154, 157; into liberal selfhood, 155; Overland Monthly turn toward, 125–26, 128, 154–55, 158; and race, 125–26 Atherton, Gertrude, 97, 117–18 Atlantic Monthly, 2–3, 24, 251n43; London writing for, 202, 214, 268nn5–6; Muir writing for, 160, 170, 171, 262n38; Overland Monthly and, 16, 214 Auerbach, Jonathan, 204–5, 214–15, 265n16 Austen, Roger, 253n70 Austin, Mary: and Coolbrith, 28, 97, 117, 118; and Overland Monthly, x, 24, 117 autonomy, 15, 36, 46; and choice, 210; as contextual, 114, 121, 220; and liberal selfhood, 14–15, 52, 83, 231–32; and political economy, 84, 114; and support structures, 119 Avery, Benjamin P., 237n61, 253n74; and Overland Monthly, 18, 236n57 Baber, Walter F., 263n57 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 239n86 Bancroft, H. H., 18 Bartlett, Robert V., 263n57 Bartlett, William C., 237n61; as Overland Monthly author, 18, 36; as Overland Monthly editor, 16, 17, 236n57 Bashford, Herbert, 237n57 Bederman, Gail, 260n21 Beetham, Margaret, 5, 234–35n19 Bennett, Raine, 109, 251–52n47 Bentham, Jeremy, 172 Benton, Thomas Hart, 254–55n11 Beringer, P. N., 237n57 Berlant, Lauren, 5 Berlin, Isaiah, 11, 96, 235n39 Bierce, Ambrose, x, 24, 98, 117, 238n61; “The Haunted Valley,” 123–25 bin Laden, Osama, vii, 227, 228 Black Hawk War, 61, 244n74 Blackwood, William C., 220; “A Consideration of the Labor Problem,” 152–53 Boeckmann, Cathy, 198, 206 Bohemian Club, 98, 117, 135, 249n15 index index 288 Boston Atlas, 71 Bridge, James Howard, 201–2, 237n57, 268n6 Brodhead, Richard H., 214 Brontë, Charlotte, 260n21 Brooks, Noah, 16, 24, 67–92, 213; biographical information, 70, 71–72; as children’s novelist, 70, 245n9; on Harte, 2, 57, 233n2, 234n6, 240n92; interest in alterity, 84–85, 86; and Lincoln, 27, 67–68, 70, 72; literary reputation of, 27–28, 70, 245n8; as newspaper editor, 246–47n19; as Overland Monthly assistant editor, 17, 70, 73–74, 245n8; politics of, 72–73; realism of, 79; on selfhood, 28, 70, 71, 217; and Twain, 70, 73, 246n18; on western expansion and conquest, 76–77, 88–91 Brooks, Noah, works of: “The Diamond Maker of Sacramento,” 18, 71, 74–79; “The Gentleman from Reno,” 71, 79–86, 248n51; “Lost in the Fog,” 27, 71, 86–91, 217–18, 248–49n65 Brown, Allen B., 243–44n57 brute luck, 195–96, 204, 210–11, 221 Burlingame Treaty (1868), 127, 132–33, 156 Bush, George W., vii, viii, 227, 233nn5–7 Bush, Laura, viii Cady, Edwin, 192, 265n14 California, 7, 22, 29, 97, 240n92; and civilization, 4, 23, 45; as contact zone, 58, 131; depicted as, 37, 76, 231; imperialist history of, 90–91; as liberal space, 15, 23, 94–95, 144–45, 231; and Mexico, 87–90, 217–18; Muir on, 30, 175–76 California Chinese Companies, 128 Californian, 104, 236n57, 238n61 capitalism, 77, 166 Carey, James, 15–16 Carmany, John H., 236n57 Carpet-Bag, 71 Carsley, Robert, 102–3 Cather, Willa, 24 Century magazine, 160, 169–70, 171 Chamberlain, Arthur H., 237n57 chance. See luck Chang, Derek, 128 Chase, Alexander W., 140; “Siletz, or ‘Lo’ Reconstructed,” 140–42, 257n47 Chesnutt, Charles W., 24 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, 62 Chinese, 29, 126, 134, 254n11, 258n67; and assimilation, 128, 133, 152, 155; Bierce on, 123–25; Blackwood on, 152–53; Doyen on, 127–28; Exclusion Act, 59, 133, 151, 153, 156, 158; Harte on, 58–60, 133; immigration legalized for, 127, 132–33, 156; Latham on, 151–52; Loomis on, 128–29; prejudice against, 123–25; work on railroads by, 129–30, 132 choice, 120–21, 210, 224–25 Chomsky, Noam, 11 Christianity, 54, 142–43, 243–44n57 citizenship, 132, 155, 188, 217, 218 civilization, xi, 4, 221–22; California and, 4, 23, 45; gendered explanations of, 44–45; Hobbes on, 8–9; as imperial project, 52–53, 78, 84–85, 227, 230; and Indians, 141, 155, 156, 254n11, 255n23; and index 289 language of wilderness, 52–53, 137–38, 164, 165; and liberalism, 8...