Sir William Drummond Stewart
Aristocratic Masculinity in the American West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10320124 |
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| Authors | Monica Rico (The author is a member of the history department at Lawrence University., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-191 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/phr.2007.76.2.163 |
| OpenAlex | W2038133427 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
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 tried to stabilize his identity through real and textual encounters with the West, the more this ground shifted under him. For instance, Stewart's novels depict the West as a place where gender and ethnicity were unpredictable and malleable. Thus, while discourses of western adventure have often been interpreted as a straightforward narrative of violence, Stewart's romantic tourism,although fraught with contradictions, reveals how western adventure could contain multiple meanings
Adventure · Aesthetics · American west · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Identity (music · Literature · Masculinity · Miller · Mythology · Narrative · Nationalism · Romance · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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