Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / / Karen R. Jones
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2015 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016 | |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (379 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 639.10978 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Epiphany in the wilderness |
| ISBN: | 1-4571-9754-5 |
| 1-4571-9752-9 | |
| 1-60732-398-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797734403321 |
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