The wild animal story /

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the wild animal story emerged in Canadian literature as a distinct genre, in which animals pursue their own interests--survival for themselves, their offspring, and perhaps a mate, or the pure pleasure of their wildness. Bringing together some of the most c...

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Other Authors / Creators:Lutts, Ralph H.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1998.
Series:Animals, culture, and society.
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245 0 4 |a The wild animal story /  |c edited by Ralph H. Lutts. 
260 |a Philadelphia :  |b Temple University Press,  |c ©1998. 
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490 1 |a Animals, culture, and society 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The wild animal story: animals and ideas / Ralph H. Lutts -- On his animal stories / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Do seek their meat from god / Charles G.D. Roberts -- The rivals of Ringwaak / Charles G.D. Roberts -- On his animal stories / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Lobo: the king of the Currumpaw / Ernest Thompson Seton -- The Springfield fox / Ernest Thompson Seton -- On his animal stories / William J. Long -- A school for little fishermen / William J. Long -- Trails that cross in the snow / William J. Long -- A woodcock genius / William J. Long -- The sounding of the call / Jack London -- Stickeen / John Muir -- Journey to the sea / Rachel L. Carson -- Real and sham natural history / John Burroughs -- The modern school of nature-study and its critics / William J. Long -- The fate of Little Mucky / Ernest Thompson Seton -- The writings of William J. Long / W.F. Ganong -- Truth plain and coloured / W.H. Hudson -- Nature as a field for fiction / Mabel Osgood Wright -- Roosevelt on the nature fakirs / Edward B. Clark -- 'I propose to smoke Roosevelt out'- Dr. Long -- Charles G.D. Roberts defends his nature stories -- Real naturalists on nature faking / Edward B. Clark -- 'Nature fakers' / Theodore Roosevelt -- The other animals / Jack London -- Chipmunk thoughts / John Burroughs -- Animal victims / Margaret Atwood -- The revolt against instinct: the animal stories of Seton and Roberts / Robert H. MacDonald -- The realistic animal story: Ernest Thompson Seton, Charles Roberts, and Darwinism / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Stickeen and the moral education of John Muir / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Will the real wild animal please stand up! The nature fakers / Ralph H. Lutts. 
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520 |a At the beginning of the twentieth century, the wild animal story emerged in Canadian literature as a distinct genre, in which animals pursue their own interests--survival for themselves, their offspring, and perhaps a mate, or the pure pleasure of their wildness. Bringing together some of the most celebrated wild animal stories, Ralph H. Lutts places them firmly in the context of heated controversies about animal intelligence and purposeful behavior. Widely regarded as entertaining and educational, the early stories--by Charles G.D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, John Muir, Jack London and other--had an avid readership among adults and children. But some naturalists and at least one hunter--Theodore Roosevelt--discredited these writers as "nature fakers," accusing them of falsely portraying animal behavior 
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