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Capture : American pursuits and the making of a new animal condition /

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"Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human-animal relations"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Traisnel, Antoine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals in art.
Photography of animals.
American fiction.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A New Animal Condition
  • Last Vestiges of the Hunt. Still Lifes (Audubon)
  • Land Speculations (Cooper)
  • New Genres of Capture. The Fugitive Animal (Poe)
  • Fabulous Taxonomy (Hawthorne)
  • The Stock Image (Muybridge)
  • Conclusion: Life in Capture.