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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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