Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / / Karen R. Jones |
Autore | Jones Karen R. <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 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 |
ISBN |
1-4571-9754-5
1-4571-9752-9 1-60732-398-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797734403321 |
Jones Karen R. <1972-> | ||
Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epiphany in the wilderness : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / / Karen R. Jones |
Autore | Jones Karen R. <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 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 |
ISBN |
1-4571-9754-5
1-4571-9752-9 1-60732-398-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820828503321 |
Jones Karen R. <1972-> | ||
Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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