1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454110703321

Autore

Mazrim Robert

Titolo

The Sangamo frontier [[electronic resource] ] : history and archaeology in the shadow of Lincoln / / Robert Mazrim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

0-226-51423-4

1-281-96593-6

9786611965938

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/56

Soggetti

Historic sites - Illinois - Springfield Region

Excavations (Archaeology) - Illinois - Springfield Region

Archaeology and history - Illinois - Springfield Region

Frontier and pioneer life - Illinois - Springfield Region

Electronic books.

Springfield Region (Ill.) Antiquities

Springfield Region (Ill.) History 19th century

Springfield Region (Ill.) History, Local

Sangamon River Valley (Ill.) History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The making of an American frontier -- The arrival of archaeology and the shadow of Lincoln -- Before the Americans -- The Americans -- At home, 1800-1840 -- Under the house, behind the house -- Goods in the forests -- The hole in the map -- A new frontier -- Overlooking wilderness : excavations at Elkhart Hill -- Earthenware at Cotton Hill : the Ebey-Brunk Kiln site -- The origins of a state capital : the Iles Store site -- Moses's Sangamo : relocating a lost town -- Exploring Moses's Sangamo : excavations at Sangamo town -- Lincoln's New Salem : history and archaeology -- Behind Lincoln's New Salem : archaeology and revisionism -- The end of the trail.

Sommario/riassunto

When Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois' Sangamo Country in 1831, he found a pioneer community transforming from a cluster of log houses



along an ancient trail to a community of new towns and state roads. But two of the towns vanished in a matter of years, and many of the activities and lifestyles that shaped them were almost entirely forgotten. In The Sangamo Frontier, archaeologist Robert Mazrim unearths the buried history of this early American community, breathing new life into a region that still rests in Lincoln's shadow. Named after a shallow river that cuts

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910568238603321

Autore

Borkfelt Sune

Titolo

Reading Slaughter : Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity / / by Sune Borkfelt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030989156

9783030989149

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, , 2634-6346

Disciplina

894.36

809.05

Soggetti

Fiction

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Space

Culture

Literature - History and criticism

Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

Cognition in animals

Fiction Literature

Contemporary Literature

Space and Place in Culture

Literary History

Animal Ethics

Animal Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.