UNSPECIFIED (2005) Nimrods: Hunting, authority, identity. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW, 100 (Part 4). 923-+. ISSN 0026-7937

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Abstract

Why does the proposed ban on hunting-a seemingly marginal and anachronistic activity-by the ruling Labour government stir up such passion in twenty-first-century Britain? An examination of the current rhetoric about hunting shows the presence of deeply held ideas about tradition, authority, and 'Britishness'. This article argues that to understand the popularity and relevance of these ideas, one has to go back to nineteenth-century Britain, when domestic controversy about hunting was entwined with an imperial context. Examining authors as diverse as Charles Kingsley and George Lawrence, and a host of memoirs by nineteenth-century imperial hunters, the article suggests that it was the coexistence of domestic and imperial contexts that enabled nineteenth-century British hunting narratives to construct a complex and problematic sense of 'tradition', the effects of which are still evident today.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Journal or Publication Title:	MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
Publisher:	MANEY PUBLISHING
ISSN:	0026-7937
Date:	October 2005
Volume:	100
Number:	Part 4
Number of Pages:	18
Page Range:	923-+
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/34318

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