The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as "Leaves of Grass," the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Frontier in American History." Moreover, he synthesizes the imaginative expression of Western myths and symbols in literature with their role in contemporary politics, economics, and society, embodied in such forms as the idea of Manifest Destiny, the conflict in the American mind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progress and civilization on the other, the Homestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War. The myths of the American West that found their expression in nineteenth-century words and deeds remain a part of every American's heritage, and Smith, with his insight into their power and significance, makes possible a critical appreciation of that heritage.
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原文地址：[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5751.html] 這個花園的主要象徵包含著一連串錶示土地肥沃，農作物的栽培和增長以及帶來無窮樂趣的田間勞動的隱喻。所有這些隱喻都圍繞著一個崇高的人物——備有神聖的犁鏵這種最重要的農具的理想化的邊疆農民。 ——《第[十一章 世...
評分原文地址：[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5751.html] 這個花園的主要象徵包含著一連串錶示土地肥沃，農作物的栽培和增長以及帶來無窮樂趣的田間勞動的隱喻。所有這些隱喻都圍繞著一個崇高的人物——備有神聖的犁鏵這種最重要的農具的理想化的邊疆農民。 ——《第[十一章 世...
評分原文地址：[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5751.html] 這個花園的主要象徵包含著一連串錶示土地肥沃，農作物的栽培和增長以及帶來無窮樂趣的田間勞動的隱喻。所有這些隱喻都圍繞著一個崇高的人物——備有神聖的犁鏵這種最重要的農具的理想化的邊疆農民。 ——《第[十一章 世...
評分原文地址：[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5751.html] 這個花園的主要象徵包含著一連串錶示土地肥沃，農作物的栽培和增長以及帶來無窮樂趣的田間勞動的隱喻。所有這些隱喻都圍繞著一個崇高的人物——備有神聖的犁鏵這種最重要的農具的理想化的邊疆農民。 ——《第[十一章 世...
評分原文地址：[http://www.qh505.com/blog/post/5751.html] 這個花園的主要象徵包含著一連串錶示土地肥沃，農作物的栽培和增長以及帶來無窮樂趣的田間勞動的隱喻。所有這些隱喻都圍繞著一個崇高的人物——備有神聖的犁鏵這種最重要的農具的理想化的邊疆農民。 ——《第[十一章 世...
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囫圇吞棗般的讀瞭
评分it is an interesting book. it talks about the symbol and myths in the west. such as myth of garden，the agragarian etc..
评分151112相當難啃的一本研究專著。
评分151112相當難啃的一本研究專著。
评分有學者說，Turner之後所有以邊疆為主題的著作都是Turner的注腳。這本1950初版，老是老瞭點，但有些內容還是很有開創性的。
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