Nature's noblemen : transatlantic masculinities and the nineteenth-century American West / Monica Rico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rico, Monica, 1971-

Series:

Lamar series in Western history.

The Lamar series in Western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

British.

Upper class--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Upper class.

Upper class--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Masculinity--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--United States--History--20th century.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--History--19th century.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men-British and American-who circulated between the West and the metropoles of London and New York.Each chapter tells the story of an individual who, by traveling these transatlantic paths, sought to resolve anxieties about class, gender, and empire in an era of profound economic and social transformation. All of the men Rico discusses-from the well known, including Theodore Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill Cody, to the comparatively obscure, such as English cattle rancher Moreton Frewen-envisioned the American West as a global space into which redemptive narratives of heroic upper-class masculinity could be written.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Sir William Drummond Stewart and Aristocratic Masculinity

2. "What Shall I Do with My Son?": Moreton Frewen and Aristocratic Masculinity on the Ranching Frontier

3. Gender and Empire: The Earl of Dunraven and Isabella Bird in Estes Park

4. "The Latest Fad of These Silly Days": Buffalo Bill in Darkest London

5. A White Man's Country: Elite Masculinity, Racial Decline, and the Frontier Stories of Theodore Roosevelt

EPILOGUE

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-19625-3

OCLC:

848162628