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- 008 210128s2020 mdu b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9781793632630 : |c CNY315.55
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d OCLCF |d UKMGB |d YDX |d OCLCO |d MNN |d YUS |d OCLCO |e rda
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- 050 00 |a PS169.C67 |b M49 2020
- 082 00 |a 809/.933581 |2 23
- 100 1_ |a Mexal, Stephen J., |e author.
- 245 14 |a The conservative aesthetic : |b Theodore Roosevelt, popular Darwinism, and the American literary West / |c Stephen J. Mexal.
- 246 30 |a Theodore Roosevelt, popular Darwinism, and the American literary West
- 264 _1 |a Lanham : |b Lexington Books, |c c2020
- 300 __ |a x, 353 pages ; |c 24 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediates |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a 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.
- 520 __ |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 01 |a Conservatism and literature |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 01 |a American literature |z West (U.S.) |x History and criticism.
- 650 01 |a American literature |y 19th century |x History and criticism.
- 650 01 |a Conservatism |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 01 |a Authors, American |x Political and social views.
- 651 _1 |a West (U.S.) |x Intellectual life |y 19th century.