The hunter elite manly sport, hunting narratives, and American conservation, 1880-1925 /
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as "manly sport with the rifle." They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular...
| Main Author: | Kelly, Tara Kathleen, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: |
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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| Summary: |
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as "manly sport with the rifle." They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite reveals new connections among hunting narratives, publishing, and the American conservation movement. -- |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-335) and index. Introduction -- Part one. Tales of the sportsman-hunter. 1. "What luxury it is" : elite hunting enters the Gilded Age ; 2. Fall of the workplace, rise of the hunt ; 3. Making meaning out of moose : constructing the hunting narrative ; 4. The business of narrative ; 5. Whitney rising -- Part two. Fellow travelers. 6. Diana's own : women and the big-game hunt ; 7. Sportsmen of the breed : British and American hunters -- Part three. Discourse and consequences. 8. Stories of guides and gunbearers ; 9. Dreaming of Howley : conservation and the uses of discourse ; 10. The end of the hunt : conservation and the limits of discourse -- Afterword. At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as "manly sport with the rifle." They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite reveals new connections among hunting narratives, publishing, and the American conservation movement. -- From amazon.com. |
| Physical Description: |
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-335) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780700625871 0700625879 9780700625888 0700625887 0700625895 9780700625895 |