It takes the average reader 3 hours and 35 minutes to read West of Emerson by Kris Fresonke
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. West of Emerson overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Kris Fresonke tracks down the texts by explorers of the far West that informed Nature, Emerson's most famous essay, and proceeds to uncover the parodic Western politics at play in classic New England works of Romanticism. Westerns, this book...
West of Emerson by Kris Fresonke is 213 pages long, and a total of 53,889 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 54 minutes to read West of Emerson aloud.
West of Emerson is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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