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Tenacious of Life
2021
Overview
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case
for considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began
developing his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds
of North America volumes show an antebellum view of nature as
fundamentally dynamic and simultaneously grotesque and
awe-inspiring. The quadruped essays are rich with good stories
about these mammals and the humans who observe, pursue, and admire
them. For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted
the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he
has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has
received little attention as an American nature writer. While
almost all works that describe the history of American nature
writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate
clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore
Bachman's status as an important American nature writer. Patterson
and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of
Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting
stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of
Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective,
moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on
all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell
the story of the coauthors' fascinating, conflicted relationship.
This collection offers windows onto the early United States and
much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural
history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of
Antebellum America's two leading naturalists.
Publisher
Nebraska,University of Nebraska Press
Subject
ISBN
9781496213341, 1496213343
