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Capture

Contents

Contents

Introduction: A New Animal Condition

Part I. Last Vestiges of the Hunt

1. Still Lifes (Audubon)

2. Land Speculations (Cooper)

Part II. New Genres of Capture

3. The Fugitive Animal (Poe)

4. Fabulous Taxonomy (Hawthorne)

5. The Stock Image (Muybridge)

Conclusion: Life in Capture

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction: A New Animal Condition

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the Provost Office. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial support from the University of Michigan to contribute to the publication of this book.

Portions of chapter 1 are adapted from “Huntology: Ontological Pursuits and Still Lives,” Diacritics 40, no. 2 (2012): 4–25; copyright 2013 Cornell University. A portion of chapter 2 was previously published as “American Entrapments: Taxonomic Capture in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 49, no. 1 (2016): 26–48; copyright Duke University. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Le faune et la sirène: la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne,” Transatlantica 2 (2011); online since June 5, 2012; http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5563.

Copyright 2020 by Antoine Traisnel

Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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