Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition

by Antoine Traisnel

Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human-animal relations From Audubon's still-life watercolors to Muybridge's trip-wire locomotion studies, from Melville's epic chases to Poe's detective hunts, the nineteenth century witnessed a surge of artistic, literary, and scientific treatments that sought to "capture" the truth of animals at the historical moment when animals were receding from everyday view...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517909635
• ISBN13: 9781517909635
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages