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Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (review)

Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (review) REVIEWS John Hausdoerffer. Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009. 178p. St. Louis University Susan Savage Lee George Catlin devoted his entire life to the preservation of American Indian material objects and to the protection of the American landscape. Often his efforts at preservation rebelled against popular nineteenth-century notions that declared the American Indian and the environment as sure casualties in the name of the nation's progress. In Catlin's Lament, John Hausdoerffer investigates George Catlin's personal viewpoints concerning westward expansion, American Indian removal, and the eradication of the natural landscape. Hausdoerffer explains that his monograph analyzes "the tenuous relationship between conscious ethical intentions and the unexamined cultural ideologies of George Catlin" (19). Hausdoerffer chose Catlin because of the artist's objection to nineteenth-century environmental and racial ideologies regarding the treatment of the American landscape as well as the American Indians, respectively. At the same time, Catlin's work (paintings, writings, a "wild west" show) involves stereotypical tropes of the American Indian, illustrating his partial "consent" of nineteenth-century ideology. Hausdoerffer's monograph attempts to flesh out the reasons for Catlin's contradictory ideas. Hausdoerffer structures his book into five "snapshots" of Catlin's unexamined http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature (review)

Rocky Mountain Review , Volume 65 (2) – Nov 5, 2011

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REVIEWS John Hausdoerffer. Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009. 178p. St. Louis University Susan Savage Lee George Catlin devoted his entire life to the preservation of American Indian material objects and to the protection of the American landscape. Often his efforts at preservation rebelled against popular nineteenth-century notions that declared the American Indian and the environment as sure casualties in the name of the nation's progress. In Catlin's Lament, John Hausdoerffer investigates George Catlin's personal viewpoints concerning westward expansion, American Indian removal, and the eradication of the natural landscape. Hausdoerffer explains that his monograph analyzes "the tenuous relationship between conscious ethical intentions and the unexamined cultural ideologies of George Catlin" (19). Hausdoerffer chose Catlin because of the artist's objection to nineteenth-century environmental and racial ideologies regarding the treatment of the American landscape as well as the American Indians, respectively. At the same time, Catlin's work (paintings, writings, a "wild west" show) involves stereotypical tropes of the American Indian, illustrating his partial "consent" of nineteenth-century ideology. Hausdoerffer's monograph attempts to flesh out the reasons for Catlin's contradictory ideas. Hausdoerffer structures his book into five "snapshots" of Catlin's unexamined

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Published: Nov 5, 2011

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