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Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cattle and Progress
1. Washington Irving, Cattle, and Indian Territory
2. Civilizing Cattle in the Writings of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper
3. Henry David Thoreau, Regional Cuisine, and Cattle
4. Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
5. The Cowboys
Are Indians in
The Squatter and the Don 6. Southern Cuisine without Cattle in Charles Chesnutt’s
Conjure Stories 7. Industrial-Global Cattle in Upton Sinclair and Winnifred Eaton
Conclusion: Meat Is the Message
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Kathryn Cornell Dolan is an associate professor of English and technical communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is the author of
Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850–1905 (Nebraska, 2014).
Summary
Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.
