“With subtlety, incisiveness, and erudition, Stephanie LeMenager takes the subject of Manifest Destiny to a sophistication never seen before. . . . This book should be required reading for all serious students of nineteenth-century U. S. literature.”—Lawrence Buell, author Writing for an Endangered World "This project is stunningly ambitious, meticulously researched, imaginatively interdisciplinary, and fundamentally radical in its re-reading of ... Read morethe nineteenth century."—José Aranda, author of When We Arrive: A New Literary history of Mexican America “LeManager’s innovative approach to geographic spaces as social and political constructs will likely provide fuel for though for anyone studying Twain’s regional writings.”—Jim Zwick, Mark Twain Forum "Manifest and Other Destinies provides an exciting model for denationalizing American studies. . . . LeMenager's strategy of identifying environments that as commercial contact zones once resisted national narratives of settlement brings together in a striking way materialist aspects of New Western history, ecocriticism, and efforts to globalize American literature."—Gretchen Murphy, American Literature “In LeMenager’s Manifest and Other Destinies scholars of the American culture can trace contemporary controversy over multi-formity to the very formation of the nation.”—Western Historical Quarterly “LeMenager reveals a new significance to the unfamiliar while revivifying and reconfiguring our understandings of the pillars of canonical American literary study.”—Western American Literature “Stephanie LeMenager’s Manifest and Other Destinies presents a richly detailed account of the points of intersection between the regional and the transitional scales.”—Hsuan L. Hsu, Nineteenth Century Studies Show Less