Susan Nance
Biographic Data
| ID | 526646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Nance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nance |
| SIGNATURE | NANCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The “Unusual Dimension”: H.D. , Jean Rhys, and the Projection of Bodies Through Time
Through analysis of H.D.’s encounters with Sigmund Freud and Jean Rhys’s novel, Good Morning, Midnight , this article explores how these two modernist writers navigate the complexities of perception, embodiment, and temporal experience. Using theory of mind and other frameworks, I argue that H.D. and Rhys suggest for readers two different ways of understanding perception and the impact of embodied experience, particularly in their attempts to res…
Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
Journal Article Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures. Get access Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. Cloth, $42.00. Susan Nance Susan Nance University of Guelph, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, J…
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg's biography of American animal advocate Henry Bergh is the first scholarly study of this influential figure to appear in several decades. Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York in 1866, which was only the first of countless city and state animal advocacy organizations inspired by his activism. Bergh was representative of a movement among middle- and upper-class Americans in the late…
Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield
Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.x + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $95.00, cloth, $27.95, paper.) Susan Nance Susan Nance University of Guelph Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume…
Sea Otters: A History
Richard Ravalli's Sea Otters tells the story of Enhydra lutris in the northern Pacific Ocean over three centuries. This concise volume deftly tackles the relevant histories of Russia, China, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The author draws upon no manuscript collections but instead a broad range of materials, from conservation and ecology science to narratives of trade and exploration to government materials and newspapers to recent…
Hollywood and the Image of the Oriental, 1910-1950—Part I
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies - Volume 8, Number 2, May 1978
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Dan Flores's American Serengeti examines animal life and its interrelation with human history over the last few centuries. He supplies an introduction and eight thematic chapters, six of which are dedicated to particular animals: pronghorn antelope, coyote, wild horses, the grizzly, bison, and wolves. In each case, he attends to the nature, behaviour, and plasticity of the creatures in question, casting them as historical agents in the interspeci…
Mythic frontiers: Remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism
Daniel R. Maher’s new work, Mythic Frontiers, examines the phenomenon of Wild West cultural heritage tourism in the United States from an anthropological perspective drawing from the literature on
Who was Greasy Sal? Outlaw Horses and the Spirit of Calgary in the Automobile Age
This article examines the development of the bucking bronc as an icon of modernity, business, and tourism promotion through a study of living horses and their representation at the Calgary Stampede during the 1920s. It draws upon the management records of the rodeo, tourism theory on back stage and front region performance, and theory on human-animal relationships. The little known mare Greasy Sal serves as a case study exposing which aspects of …
Conclusion: From Jumbo to Knut
Concluding remarks reintroduce animal modernity as demonstrated by Jumbo’s journey from captive wild animal, to celebrity and marketing icon, to early death, raw material and toy. Jumbo’s case is compared to Berlin Zoo polar bear, Knut, who recently underwent a similar process from circus to zoo and toy icon. Like Jumbo, zoo management had Knut’s carcass stuffed, to much public disgust. Similarities between Jumbo and Knut indicate that we are sti…
Jumbo: Carcass, Relic, Toy
This chapter follows Jumbo’s post-mortem transformation from celebrity circus captive to raw material for naturalists. Correspondence between Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus and Henry Ward’s Natural History Establishment shows how circuses and zoologists resisted with public perceptions of animals while treating them, not as sentient individuals, but as raw material. Both interpretations of animals, as pets and raw material, were necessary f…
Jumbo: Sentient Animal Celebrity
Chapter 1 examines how British consumers in the early 1880s made Jumbo an international celebrity by expressing interest in him as a sentient individual whose experience was a matter of public concern. By a letter-writing campaign and visits to the elephant, women and children, Londoners in particular, defined the London Zoological Society’s sale of the elephant to P. T. Barnum as “cruel” because it denied the elephant’s presumed wishes and needs…
Introduction: Modernity for Animals?
This chapter first defines Keith Thomas’ concept of the human dilemma of modern life wherein people benefited materially from but were conflicted about the mass killing and exploitation of animals. It then critiques the historical literature on modernity for excluding consideration of how modern phenomena have shaped animal life, then reviews Animal Studies work on human-animal relationships in modernity, and historical literature documenting par…
Jumbo: Tourist and Consumer
Chapter 2 documents how media-driven interest in Jumbo in North America flattered citizens as preeminent global consumers. After Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson imported the elephant to New York, circus publicity and advertising positioned Jumbo as natural wonder, trophy of Barnum's victory over British public opinion, and also the gentle pet of handler Matthew Scott. The chapter then compares the elephant's publicity to the behind-the-scenes reali…
Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma
The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In
Gwyneth Anne Thayer. Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
Gwyneth Anne Thayer's study of commercial dog tracks appears at a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Today, greyhound racing revenues are in steep decline with legislatures in Iowa, Arizona, and Florida recently having contemplated bills that would destroy the viability of the few remaining tracks. Thayer's timely account additionally represents the first academic study of the industrial use of a purebred dog in the U.S. in broad social, economic, a…
Game Stallions and Other "Horseface Minstrelsies" of the American Turf
This essay considers how one's ability to see animals as "performers" seeking to flatter a human spectator lies at the very root of modern experience, which developed in the nineteenth century. As a case study, it explores the development of the game racehorse, an equine character perceived as a knowing, willing participant in the then masculine cultures of competitive horse breeding, racing, and gambling. Elaborating J. J. Clark's literary model…
On Wild Animals, Hubris, and Redemption
This review considers three recent films that focus on the lives of captive exotic animals and the people who keep them: Water for Elephants (2011), a fictional Hollywood feature, and the documentaries One Lucky Elephant (2010) and The Elephant in the Living Room (2010). Despite their different motivations and target audiences, all three productions tell the stories of well-meaning people who take wild animals captive—most prominently elephants a…
The Ottoman Empire and the American flag: Patriotic travel before the age of package tours, 1830–1870
This article examines US flag display practices among American tourists in the Ottoman Empire between 1835 and 1870. These practices emerged from the intersection of the domestic American market for depictions of citizens abroad, Ottoman regulation on foreign nationals in the Empire that required flag display on boats and camps, and the energy of Ottoman travel industry workers who helped American visitors’ extend flag display to other colloquial…
A facilitated access model and ottoman empire tourism
Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago
In 1926, the well-known black scholar Ira De Augustine Reid complained that storefront churches were "a general nuisance. Neither their appearance nor their character warrants the respect of the Community." Mortified, he described the founders of these informal assemblies: "He conducts his Services on such days as he feels disposed mentally and indisposed financially. To this gentleman of the cloth... the church is a legitimate business." More to…
Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco, and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago
Sometime in 1926 or early 1927, rumors began spreading around Chicago's South Side that a group of exotically-dressed men had begun initiating altercations with strangers in public. Critics claimed these men called themselves Moorish Americans and strode around the city daring startled whites to trample black rights by announcing, "I am a citizen of the USA!" Some also witnessed these "Sheiks" making agitating speeches at work and at the street u…
Steven Spielberg: A Celebration
Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma
The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In
Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco, and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago
Sometime in 1926 or early 1927, rumors began spreading around Chicago's South Side that a group of exotically-dressed men had begun initiating altercations with strangers in public. Critics claimed these men called themselves Moorish Americans and strode around the city daring startled whites to trample black rights by announcing, "I am a citizen of the USA!" Some also witnessed these "Sheiks" making agitating speeches at work and at the street u…
Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago
In 1926, the well-known black scholar Ira De Augustine Reid complained that storefront churches were "a general nuisance. Neither their appearance nor their character warrants the respect of the Community." Mortified, he described the founders of these informal assemblies: "He conducts his Services on such days as he feels disposed mentally and indisposed financially. To this gentleman of the cloth... the church is a legitimate business." More to…
A facilitated access model and ottoman empire tourism
Steven Spielberg: A Celebration
Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago
In 1926, the well-known black scholar Ira De Augustine Reid complained that storefront churches were "a general nuisance. Neither their appearance nor their character warrants the respect of the Community." Mortified, he described the founders of these informal assemblies: "He conducts his Services on such days as he feels disposed mentally and indisposed financially. To this gentleman of the cloth... the church is a legitimate business." More to…
Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco, and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago
Sometime in 1926 or early 1927, rumors began spreading around Chicago's South Side that a group of exotically-dressed men had begun initiating altercations with strangers in public. Critics claimed these men called themselves Moorish Americans and strode around the city daring startled whites to trample black rights by announcing, "I am a citizen of the USA!" Some also witnessed these "Sheiks" making agitating speeches at work and at the street u…
A facilitated access model and ottoman empire tourism
The Ottoman Empire and the American flag: Patriotic travel before the age of package tours, 1830–1870
This article examines US flag display practices among American tourists in the Ottoman Empire between 1835 and 1870. These practices emerged from the intersection of the domestic American market for depictions of citizens abroad, Ottoman regulation on foreign nationals in the Empire that required flag display on boats and camps, and the energy of Ottoman travel industry workers who helped American visitors’ extend flag display to other colloquial…
On Wild Animals, Hubris, and Redemption
This review considers three recent films that focus on the lives of captive exotic animals and the people who keep them: Water for Elephants (2011), a fictional Hollywood feature, and the documentaries One Lucky Elephant (2010) and The Elephant in the Living Room (2010). Despite their different motivations and target audiences, all three productions tell the stories of well-meaning people who take wild animals captive—most prominently elephants a…
Game Stallions and Other "Horseface Minstrelsies" of the American Turf
This essay considers how one's ability to see animals as "performers" seeking to flatter a human spectator lies at the very root of modern experience, which developed in the nineteenth century. As a case study, it explores the development of the game racehorse, an equine character perceived as a knowing, willing participant in the then masculine cultures of competitive horse breeding, racing, and gambling. Elaborating J. J. Clark's literary model…
Gwyneth Anne Thayer. Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
Gwyneth Anne Thayer's study of commercial dog tracks appears at a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Today, greyhound racing revenues are in steep decline with legislatures in Iowa, Arizona, and Florida recently having contemplated bills that would destroy the viability of the few remaining tracks. Thayer's timely account additionally represents the first academic study of the industrial use of a purebred dog in the U.S. in broad social, economic, a…
Conclusion: From Jumbo to Knut
Concluding remarks reintroduce animal modernity as demonstrated by Jumbo’s journey from captive wild animal, to celebrity and marketing icon, to early death, raw material and toy. Jumbo’s case is compared to Berlin Zoo polar bear, Knut, who recently underwent a similar process from circus to zoo and toy icon. Like Jumbo, zoo management had Knut’s carcass stuffed, to much public disgust. Similarities between Jumbo and Knut indicate that we are sti…
Jumbo: Carcass, Relic, Toy
This chapter follows Jumbo’s post-mortem transformation from celebrity circus captive to raw material for naturalists. Correspondence between Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson circus and Henry Ward’s Natural History Establishment shows how circuses and zoologists resisted with public perceptions of animals while treating them, not as sentient individuals, but as raw material. Both interpretations of animals, as pets and raw material, were necessary f…
Jumbo: Sentient Animal Celebrity
Chapter 1 examines how British consumers in the early 1880s made Jumbo an international celebrity by expressing interest in him as a sentient individual whose experience was a matter of public concern. By a letter-writing campaign and visits to the elephant, women and children, Londoners in particular, defined the London Zoological Society’s sale of the elephant to P. T. Barnum as “cruel” because it denied the elephant’s presumed wishes and needs…
Introduction: Modernity for Animals?
This chapter first defines Keith Thomas’ concept of the human dilemma of modern life wherein people benefited materially from but were conflicted about the mass killing and exploitation of animals. It then critiques the historical literature on modernity for excluding consideration of how modern phenomena have shaped animal life, then reviews Animal Studies work on human-animal relationships in modernity, and historical literature documenting par…
Jumbo: Tourist and Consumer
Chapter 2 documents how media-driven interest in Jumbo in North America flattered citizens as preeminent global consumers. After Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson imported the elephant to New York, circus publicity and advertising positioned Jumbo as natural wonder, trophy of Barnum's victory over British public opinion, and also the gentle pet of handler Matthew Scott. The chapter then compares the elephant's publicity to the behind-the-scenes reali…
Animal Modernity: Jumbo the Elephant and the Human Dilemma
The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In
Mythic frontiers: Remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism
Daniel R. Maher’s new work, Mythic Frontiers, examines the phenomenon of Wild West cultural heritage tourism in the United States from an anthropological perspective drawing from the literature on
Who was Greasy Sal? Outlaw Horses and the Spirit of Calgary in the Automobile Age
This article examines the development of the bucking bronc as an icon of modernity, business, and tourism promotion through a study of living horses and their representation at the Calgary Stampede during the 1920s. It draws upon the management records of the rodeo, tourism theory on back stage and front region performance, and theory on human-animal relationships. The little known mare Greasy Sal serves as a case study exposing which aspects of …
Hollywood and the Image of the Oriental, 1910-1950—Part I
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies - Volume 8, Number 2, May 1978
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Dan Flores's American Serengeti examines animal life and its interrelation with human history over the last few centuries. He supplies an introduction and eight thematic chapters, six of which are dedicated to particular animals: pronghorn antelope, coyote, wild horses, the grizzly, bison, and wolves. In each case, he attends to the nature, behaviour, and plasticity of the creatures in question, casting them as historical agents in the interspeci…
Sea Otters: A History
Richard Ravalli's Sea Otters tells the story of Enhydra lutris in the northern Pacific Ocean over three centuries. This concise volume deftly tackles the relevant histories of Russia, China, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The author draws upon no manuscript collections but instead a broad range of materials, from conservation and ecology science to narratives of trade and exploration to government materials and newspapers to recent…
Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield
Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield Outriders: Rodeo and the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.x + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $95.00, cloth, $27.95, paper.) Susan Nance Susan Nance University of Guelph Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume…
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg's biography of American animal advocate Henry Bergh is the first scholarly study of this influential figure to appear in several decades. Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York in 1866, which was only the first of countless city and state animal advocacy organizations inspired by his activism. Bergh was representative of a movement among middle- and upper-class Americans in the late…
Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
Journal Article Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures. Get access Nigel Rothfels. Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 256. Cloth, $42.00. Susan Nance Susan Nance University of Guelph, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, J…
The “Unusual Dimension”: H.D. , Jean Rhys, and the Projection of Bodies Through Time
Through analysis of H.D.’s encounters with Sigmund Freud and Jean Rhys’s novel, Good Morning, Midnight , this article explores how these two modernist writers navigate the complexities of perception, embodiment, and temporal experience. Using theory of mind and other frameworks, I argue that H.D. and Rhys suggest for readers two different ways of understanding perception and the impact of embodied experience, particularly in their attempts to res…
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