Christine Bold (Professor of English, Professor of English, Univers

Frontier Club

Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924

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Produktbeschreibung

The Frontier Club delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social, political, and financial interests in the making of the modern western.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780199731794
• ISBN-10: 0199731799
• Artikelnr.: 36539812

Autorenporträt

Christine Bold is Professor of English at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Selling the Wild West, The WPA Guides and the editor of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Frontier Club Western: An Introduction
Frontier Clubmen
Vigilante Clubmen
The Virginian
Chapter 1: Boone and Crockett Writers
The Boone and Crockett Club, 1893
Boone and Crockett Clubmen
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bird Grinnell
Owen Wister
Winthrop Chanler
Madison Grant
Henry Cabot Lodge
Caspar Whitney
Frederic Remington
The Books of the Boone and Crockett Club
Shaping the Voice
Clearing the Enclave
Writing the Frontier Club Western
Lobbying the Federal Government
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Cowboys and Publishers
A Very Proper Philadelphian
Frontier Club Neurasthenia
A Man's Gotta Do . . .
Aristocrats Out West
Frontier Club Investments
The Cheyenne Club
Cowboys and Vigilantes
Showdown on Publishers' Row
Frontier Club Investments
The Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace
Conclusion: The Frontier Club vs Alkali Ike
Chapter 3: Women in the Frontier Club
Frontier Club Women and Families
The Wister Women
Molly Wister
Women's Space in the Frontier Club Western
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Jim Crow and the Western
Wister: "white for a hundred years"
Roosevelt's Rough Riders
Remington: With the Eye of the Mind
Black Rough Riders Redux
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Immigrants and "Indians"
Vanishing Acts
Immigration Restriction
Owen Wister
Madison Grant
Another Hank
American Indian Assimilation
George Bird Grinnell
Jack the Young Frontier Clubman
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Outside the Frontier Club
Princess Chinquilla
Cheek by Jowl
Rewriting 1902
Conclusion: Frontier Club Fingerprints