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Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen R. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Karen R., 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunters--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Hunters.
- Hunting in art--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Hunting in art.
- Hunting in literature--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Hunting in literature.
- Hunting--Social aspects--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Hunting.
- Hunting--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781457197543
- 1457197545
- 9781457197529
- 1457197529
- 9781607323983
- 1607323982
- OCLC:
- 929628716
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