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题名/责任者:

The conservative aesthetic : Theodore Roosevelt, popular Darwinism, and the American literary West / Stephen J. Mexal.

出版发行项:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2020

ISBN:

9781793632630 :

其它标准号:

40030619806

载体形态项:

x, 353 pages ; 24 cm

变异题名:

Theodore Roosevelt, popular Darwinism, and the American literary West

个人责任者:

Mexal, Stephen J., author.

论题主题:

Conservatism and literature-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

American literature-West (U.S.)-History and criticism.

论题主题:

American literature-19th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Conservatism-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Authors, American-Political and social views.

地理名称主题:

West (U.S.)-Intellectual life-19th century.

中图法分类号:

I712.064

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: The Old Iron Days -- Part I: Gentlemen of the West (1880-1884) -- Roosevelt in the Badlands -- Wister goes west -- Frederic Remington?s vanishing west -- A self-made man -- Remington and the art of scientific representation -- Wister?s legal education -- 鈥淏uffalo Bill鈥?Cody and the selling of the west -- Part II: The early history of conservatism (1689-1880) -- The nature of freedom -- Emerson?s great man theory of history -- Darwin comes to America -- The redeemers, the socialists, and conservatism after the Civil War - Part III: Selling a Darwinian West (1884-1890) -- Equal to all occasions -- Cody and the queen -- The cowboy of Dakota -- Remington?s great white west -- Natural inequality and the course of progress -- The ghost dance -- Part IV: In search of a practical history (1890-1895) -- The Johnson County War -- The World?s Columbian Exposition -- The Boone and Crockett Club -- Environmental conservation and political conservatism -- The science of western history -- A practical conservatism -- The evolution of a cowboy -- The bronco brothers -- Progress, populism, and the lure of war -- Part V: Cuba and the new west (1896-1902) -- The rush of war -- The cowboy regiment abroad -- Rewriting a legacy -- The Virginian and the White House -- Epilogue: The cowboy president.

摘要附注:

"The Conservative Aesthetic explores a circle of western writers and artists that rose up around Theodore Roosevelt in the late nineteenth century. It makes the case that their unique alloy of popular Darwinism and western mythmaking represent an aesthetic component of American conservatism that has long been overlooked"--

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