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McLaughlin, Malcolm 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4139-1151
(2022)
Forest and dream: Adventure, nostalgia, and the making of a sporting-tourist’s America, 1873-1890.
Comparative American Studies, 19 (4).
pp. 293-320.
ISSN 1477-5700
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Abstract
In the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s, in the decades between the Civil War and the closing of the Western frontier, the pioneering, New York-based outdoor-sports magazine Forest and Stream made an essential contribution to a larger cultural reimagining of America. For its readers, the magazine was an important source of practical advice, but its accounts of outdoor pursuits in wild landscapes across the United States also encouraged fantasies of travel and adventure. By examining Forest and Stream, this article seeks to understand how nostalgia played into those fantasies, shaping an idea of the nation along the way. Rather than treating the West as a region with a discrete cultural history, this article seeks to place it in a larger national context. And accordingly, it suggests that outdoor-recreation magazines can provide a vital perspective on the way nostalgia and adventure fantasy combined in negotiating the relationship between the metropolitan Northeast, the West, and the South in the cultural remaking of the nation at what was a crucial historical juncture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Article was first published on 17 Jan 2023. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | adventure fiction,american west,consumerism,nationalism,nostalgia,outdoor recreation,outdoor-sports magazines,tourism,cultural studies,arts and humanities(all),sociology and political science,sdg 15 - life on land,sdg 12 - responsible consumption and production ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2022 04:11 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90169 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14775700.2022.2159755 |
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