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

In Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition, U-M Assistant Professor of English Antoine Traisnel reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century.