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Epiphany in the Wilderness : Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jones, Karen R., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.