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Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature
Brady Harrison
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Description for Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature
Hardcover. Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. The leader of several fractious, bloody forays into Mexico and Central America in the 1850s, Walker was executed in 1860 by a Honduran firing squad. Brady Harrison looks at a dozen works, such as Bret Harte's novel The Crusade of Excelsior (1887) and Alex Cox's film Walker (1987), to show how Walker's life and legacy have been explored in journalism, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema for over a century. At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, ... Read more
Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker. The leader of several fractious, bloody forays into Mexico and Central America in the 1850s, Walker was executed in 1860 by a Honduran firing squad. Brady Harrison looks at a dozen works, such as Bret Harte's novel The Crusade of Excelsior (1887) and Alex Cox's film Walker (1987), to show how Walker's life and legacy have been explored in journalism, poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema for over a century. At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325446
SKU
V9780820325446
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About Brady Harrison
Brady Harrison is an associate professor of English at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is editor of a forthcoming scholarly edition of Richard Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune.
Reviews for Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature
Brady Harrison covers an impressive range of genre and mode - journalistic report, essay, short story, novel, poem, play, movie - and works likewise across a spectrum of literary and cultural discourses. Agent of Empire is a learned, interesting, and important book. - Philip D. Beidler, University of Alabama