Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West
Title:
Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West
Author:
Jones, Karen R., 1972- author.
ISBN:
9781607323983
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Introduction : the West, storytelling animals, and the hunt as performance -- Act 1: Actors and agents : the cultural ecology of hunter's paradise. Masculinity, the 'strenuous life', and the genealogy of the hunter hero -- The voice of the Winchester and the martial culture of the hunt -- Lady adventurers and crack shots : hunter heroines in the nineteenth-century American West -- Act 2:'The after life' of the hunt : story, image and trophy. Landscapes of testimony : performing the game trail in literature, art ,and photography -- Staging the game trail : the theatrical wild -- The soul in the skin : taxidermy and the reanimated -- Act 3: Saving the hunting frontier . Conservation, wild things, and the end of the hunting trail -- Heretical visions and hunter's paradise redux -- Preservation and performance : an afterword to the after-life.
Abstract:
"Stories of grand adventure and hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Jones explores social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting using performance as trail guide and production of a '"cultural ecology of the chase"' in art and taxidermy"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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