‘The Wild West of England’: Enclosure, Stag-hunting, and the Creation of New Popular Perceptions of Exmoor in the Nineteenth Century
dc.contributor.author | French, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-22T10:24:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-06-03 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-05-22T09:20:01Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent research emphasizes parallels between agrarian enclosure campaigns in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and Ireland, and neo-colonial discourses. Both used the ‘wasteful’ under-exploitation of land by indigenous populations as moral justifications for its appropriation for capitalist agriculture. Focusing on reclamation campaigns on Exmoor, a former royal forest in south-west England, sold by the Crown in 1818, this article shows how these discourses were displaced by emergent defences of undeveloped ‘wildness’, advanced in sustained media campaign by advocates of stag hunting. Although they pitted ‘wildness’ against ‘civilised’ agriculture, the article argues that this was an alternative discourse of modernity. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Leverhulme Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 3 June 2024 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14780038.2024.2359502 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RPG-2020-045 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/136009 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-5101-4782 (French, Henry) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Colonial discourse | en_GB |
dc.subject | modernity | en_GB |
dc.subject | capitalism | en_GB |
dc.subject | agricultural development | en_GB |
dc.subject | news media | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental protection | en_GB |
dc.subject | hunting | en_GB |
dc.subject | conservation | en_GB |
dc.title | ‘The Wild West of England’: Enclosure, Stag-hunting, and the Creation of New Popular Perceptions of Exmoor in the Nineteenth Century | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-22T10:24:04Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1478-0038 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1478-0046 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Cultural and Social History | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-05-21 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2024-02-05 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-05-21 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-05-22T09:20:22Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-06-04T15:29:30Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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