The Myth Of the Adirondack Backwoodsman: From the Golden Years to Consumer Society

The aim of this paper is to trace the development of myth as a sociological tool through the analysis of the Adirondack backwoodsman of the golden years (a category which includes guides, hunters and trappers) as a literary archetype of the romanticist era and its subsequent decline with the advent...

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Main Author: Claudia Alonso Recarte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza 2010-04-01
Series:Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
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Online Access:https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/9413