Monica Rico
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Rico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Rico |
| SIGNATURE | RICO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ferment
First, imagine your grandmotherwho loved bread telling you notto get caught up in the exactnessof the recipe which will goagainst what the chef taught youwhen you were trying to measure.3 grams, a sixteenth of a teaspoon,and you thought this is a pinchas you lifted and replaced eachweight on the scale. Behind youthe dough smelled ripe like beerin those early mornings of baking schoolthe machines getting lostin fold after fold, the ribbon arm of d…
Sacrament
I want to say twelve, although I hope it was earlier whenI came home and found my mother asleepmy mother asleep under the single-stitchedafghan it took her three years to make.It took her years to learn how to make tamales because mygrandmother was secretive and wouldn’t waitshe wouldn’t wait for my mother to show up,she’d finish the tamales by noon and brew a pot of coffee.Always with a cup of coffee, because tamales are too rich.Often my mother…
R ory M uir . Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
What if the Bennet daughters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice had been sons? What professions might they have followed without fear of downward social mobility and with some hope of upward advancement? Rory Muir begins and ends Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune with this question, and throughout his engaging study, he uses Austen’s own family, as well as her fictional characters, as a frame for a discussion of the paths open to young men of “goo…
Tara Kathleen Kelly. The Hunter Elite
Tara Kathleen Kelly’s The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880–1925 is the latest addition to an ongoing scholarly conversation about big game hunting, masculinity, and wildlife conservation that began with work in the 1970s by John Reiger and James Trefethen and was continued by Thomas Dunlap, Louis Warren, and Karl Jacoby. Together, these studies have demonstrated the crucial role played by sport hunter…
Nature's Noblemen
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 t…
Book Reivew
Book Review| November 01 2013 Book Reivew: Coleman, Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation, by Monica Rico Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation. By Jon T. Coleman. (New York, Hill and Wang, 2012. xiii + 252 pp. $28) Monica Rico Monica Rico Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2…
Getting a Visa vs. Using a Visa
Sir William Drummond Stewart
Sir William Drummond Stewart is known mostly as the patron of artist Alfred Jacob Miller, but he is worth examining in his own right for the ways in which his travels,collecting, and fiction reveal how western myths could resonate in contexts other than the familiar project of American nationalism. This article explores how the West served as an imaginative and literal site on which Stewart constructed his masculinity. Yet the more that Stewart t…
The Cultural Contexts of International Capital Expansion
In the late‐nineteenth century, open‐range cattle ranching in the American West became popular among the British upper classes both as an investment and as a vocation. However, after a severe winter in 1886–1887, many of these enterprises failed and foreign investment in the American range cattle industry waned. This paper examines the experiences of British ranchers in Wyoming and in particular the career of Moreton Frewen (1857–1924) in order t…
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The Cultural Contexts of International Capital Expansion
In the late‐nineteenth century, open‐range cattle ranching in the American West became popular among the British upper classes both as an investment and as a vocation. However, after a severe winter in 1886–1887, many of these enterprises failed and foreign investment in the American range cattle industry waned. This paper examines the experiences of British ranchers in Wyoming and in particular the career of Moreton Frewen (1857–1924) in order t…
Getting a Visa vs. Using a Visa
Sir William Drummond Stewart
Sir William Drummond Stewart is known mostly as the patron of artist Alfred Jacob Miller, but he is worth examining in his own right for the ways in which his travels,collecting, and fiction reveal how western myths could resonate in contexts other than the familiar project of American nationalism. This article explores how the West served as an imaginative and literal site on which Stewart constructed his masculinity. Yet the more that Stewart t…
Book Reivew
Book Review| November 01 2013 Book Reivew: Coleman, Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation, by Monica Rico Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation. By Jon T. Coleman. (New York, Hill and Wang, 2012. xiii + 252 pp. $28) Monica Rico Monica Rico Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2…
Nature's Noblemen
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 t…
Tara Kathleen Kelly. The Hunter Elite
Tara Kathleen Kelly’s The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880–1925 is the latest addition to an ongoing scholarly conversation about big game hunting, masculinity, and wildlife conservation that began with work in the 1970s by John Reiger and James Trefethen and was continued by Thomas Dunlap, Louis Warren, and Karl Jacoby. Together, these studies have demonstrated the crucial role played by sport hunter…
Ferment
First, imagine your grandmotherwho loved bread telling you notto get caught up in the exactnessof the recipe which will goagainst what the chef taught youwhen you were trying to measure.3 grams, a sixteenth of a teaspoon,and you thought this is a pinchas you lifted and replaced eachweight on the scale. Behind youthe dough smelled ripe like beerin those early mornings of baking schoolthe machines getting lostin fold after fold, the ribbon arm of d…
Sacrament
I want to say twelve, although I hope it was earlier whenI came home and found my mother asleepmy mother asleep under the single-stitchedafghan it took her three years to make.It took her years to learn how to make tamales because mygrandmother was secretive and wouldn’t waitshe wouldn’t wait for my mother to show up,she’d finish the tamales by noon and brew a pot of coffee.Always with a cup of coffee, because tamales are too rich.Often my mother…
R ory M uir . Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
What if the Bennet daughters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice had been sons? What professions might they have followed without fear of downward social mobility and with some hope of upward advancement? Rory Muir begins and ends Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune with this question, and throughout his engaging study, he uses Austen’s own family, as well as her fictional characters, as a frame for a discussion of the paths open to young men of “goo…
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