Epiphany in the wilderness : : hunting, nature, and performance in the nineteenth-century American West / / Karen R. Jones.
"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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : University Press of Colorado,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (379 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.