Bold Christine (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Guelph)
Bold Christine (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Guelph) - The Frontier Club Popular Westerns And Cultural Power 1880 - 1924 - Hardcover
Bold Christine (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Guelph) - The Frontier Club Popular Westerns And Cultural Power 1880 - 1924 - Hardcover
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Description: The Frontier Club is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big - game hunting to conservation immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation - and aligned themselves with cattle kings and "quality" publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight - of - hand. It delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social political and financial interests in the making of the modern western. It re - reads frontier club fiction in relation to the federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos) with which it was intimately connected; the centerpiece is Owen Wister's bestselling novel The Virginian. It casts new light on nine key clubmen both the famous and the forgotten - in addition to Wister the network included Theodore Roosevelt George Bird Grinnell Silas Weir Mitchell Henry Cabot Lodge Madison Grant Caspar Whitney Winthrop Chanler and Frederic Remington - while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist. Bold also considers some of the costs of the frontier club formula in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices including western writings by African Americans white women and non - elite white men. The book ends by briefly charting the frontier club's enduring impression on western movies.
Title: The Frontier Club Popular Westerns And Cultural Power 1880 - 1924
Author(s): Bold Christine (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Guelph)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199731794
Pages: 320 Pages, 10 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/31/2013
Category: Social & Cultural History
Description: The Frontier Club is Christine Bold's name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes - from big - game hunting to conservation immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation - and aligned themselves with cattle kings and "quality" publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight - of - hand. It delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social political and financial interests in the making of the modern western. It re - reads frontier club fiction in relation to the federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos) with which it was intimately connected; the centerpiece is Owen Wister's bestselling novel The Virginian. It casts new light on nine key clubmen both the famous and the forgotten - in addition to Wister the network included Theodore Roosevelt George Bird Grinnell Silas Weir Mitchell Henry Cabot Lodge Madison Grant Caspar Whitney Winthrop Chanler and Frederic Remington - while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist. Bold also considers some of the costs of the frontier club formula in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices including western writings by African Americans white women and non - elite white men. The book ends by briefly charting the frontier club's enduring impression on western movies.
Title: The Frontier Club Popular Westerns And Cultural Power 1880 - 1924
Author(s): Bold Christine (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Guelph)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199731794
Pages: 320 Pages, 10 Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/31/2013
Category: Social & Cultural History
