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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524670703321

Autore

Traisnel Antoine

Titolo

Capture : American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition / / Antoine Traisnel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5179-0964-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

813/.309362

Soggetti

Photography of animals

Animals in art

Human-animal relationships in literature

Animals in literature

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A New Animal Condition  -- Last Vestiges of the Hunt. Still Lifes (Audubon)  -- Land Speculations (Cooper)  -- New Genres of Capture. The Fugitive Animal (Poe) -- Fabulous Taxonomy (Hawthorne) -- The Stock Image (Muybridge)  -- Conclusion: Life in Capture.

Sommario/riassunto

"Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human-animal relations"--