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Winter 1987

Winter 1987

Volume 63, Number 1

Murray Milner’s “Dirt and Development in India”
John Seelye’s “Beyond the Shining Mountains: the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an Enlightenment Epic”
Darwin J. Flakoll’s “La Vida En Deya”
Monroe K. Spears’s “James Dickey as a Southern Visionary”
Stories by Murray Milner, John Seelye, Darwin J. Flakoll, and Monroe K. Spears

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Beyond the Shining Mountains: the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an Enlightenment Epic

By John Seelye

From Cotton Mather's Magnalia to Charles Olson's Maximus, American writers have produced works which qualify—for the most part self-consciously—as epics, and a preponderance of these works deals with the unfolding imperial diagram that became [...]

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The Green Room, Winter 1987

By Staige D. Blackford

Velazquez, Or Social Climbing As Art

By David T. Gies

The Treasury of Virtue Revisited

By William C. Havard

The Wayward Press: An Updater

By James Deakin

Dirt and Development in India

By Murray Milner

Beyond the Shining Mountains: the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an Enlightenment Epic

By John Seelye

The Rivalry

By Richard Easton

La Vida En Deya

By Darwin J. Flakoll

James Dickey as a Southern Visionary

By Monroe K. Spears

In Defense of Anonymity

Nuclear Deterrence: Behind the Strategic and Ethical Debate

By Michael Joseph Smith

Poetry

Fiction

Mermaids

By Ann Beattie

Criticism

A Literary Jack-Of-All-Trades

By Douglas W. Alden

Rose-Johnny

By Barbara Kingsolver

Author Profiles

Darwin J. Flakoll

John Seelye