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Autore |
Jones Karen R. <1972-> |
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Titolo |
Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / / Karen R. Jones |
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Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-9754-5 |
1-4571-9752-9 |
1-60732-398-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (379 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hunters - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Hunting in art - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Hunting in literature - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Hunting - Social aspects - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Hunting - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Stories of grand adventure and hunting loomed large in the material |
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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"-- |
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