id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_z2avkpthdrfzrefwtutdo7bpdq (:Unkn) Unknown Pioneering the Social Imagination: Literary Landscapes of the American West, 1872-1968 2020.0 327 .pdf application/pdf 106317 5788 63 By investigating changes in western land practices such as goldmining, homesteading, and transportation, I show that the ways characters imagine party in shutting down its ode to the American West as a space that inspires imagination. According to the New Encyclopedia of the American West, the western novel can western spaces around them reveals that the 20th century literature of the American West I argue, Twain's vagabond imagination draws on the land of the West in two different landscape provided the "history and culture" in which Americans felt lacking in contrast to the Old World. "settler's imagination" of the West, which sees the landscape as a space not for explore and imagine the landscape of the West, as well as his place in it, as he sees fit, to visions of the land in Twain, Cather, and Paredes – whose characters often work in ./cache/work_z2avkpthdrfzrefwtutdo7bpdq.pdf ./txt/work_z2avkpthdrfzrefwtutdo7bpdq.txt