Epiphany in the wilderness [electronic resource] :: hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / Karen R. Jones.
By: Jones, Karen R.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781607323983; 1607323982.Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"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.
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