Hooper Johnson Jones Hooper

Dog and Gun (eBook, ePUB)

A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper s works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabama s most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentleman. Beidler s introduction to this reprint edition explores the social, literary, and technical dimensions of Dog and Gun, which he sees as an important commentary on class distinctions in the antebellum South, as well as a straightforward treatise on hunting. Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting clearly distinct from hunting for food in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs. He takes us back to an autumnal ritual of the hunt, where one is always a boy with his first gun to the natural mystery of quest, competition, predation, pursuit, survival, bravery, endurance, and eventual defeat, called the mystery of the hunt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780817393182
• Artikelnr.: 72472881

Autorenporträt

Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) was also the author of Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs to be reprinted by this Press in fall 1992. Philip D. Beidler is Professor of English at The University of Alabama.