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

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"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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Main Author: Jones, Karen R., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hunting > Social aspects.
Hunting in literature.
Hunting in art.
Hunting.
Hunters.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Chasse dans l'art > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Chasse dans la litterature > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Hunters > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Hunting in art > History > 19th century.
Hunting in literature > History > 19th century.
Hunting > Social aspects > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Hunting > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
West United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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