Epiphany in the Wilderness Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West【電子書籍】[ Karen R. Jones ]

＜p＞Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. ＜em＞Epiphany in the Wilderness＜/em＞ explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploit．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る