Dog and Gun

A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting....

Johnson Jones Hooper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2019
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-0561-1 (ISBN)

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The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper's works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabama's most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts - and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentleman. Beidler's introduction to this reprint edition explores the social, literary, and technical dimensions of Dog and Gun, which he sees as an important commentary on class distinctions in the antebellum South, as well as a straightforward treatise on hunting. Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting - clearly distinct from hunting for food - in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs. He takes us back to an autumnal ritual of the hunt, where one is always a boy with his first gun - to the natural mystery of quest, competition, predation, pursuit, survival, bravery, endurance, and eventual defeat, called the mystery of the hunt.

Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) was also the author of Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs to be reprinted by this Press in fall 1992. Philip D. Beidler is Professor of English at The University of Alabama.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2019
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	150 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
ISBN-10	0-8173-0561-0 / 0817305610
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-0561-1 / 9780817305611
Zustand	Neuware