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1 online resource |
| Series |
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture |
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Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Testing metaphor. Entities in the world: intertextuality in medieval bestiaries and fables / Carolynn Van Dyke -- Una's "Milkewhite lambe" / Karen Edwards -- Behn's beasts: Aesop's fables and Surinam's wildlife in Oroonoko / Jane Spencer -- Plotting agency. Shakespeare's animal parts / Philip Armstrong -- Exit pursuing a human: performing animals on the early modern stage / Andy Kesson -- Collaborative agency: animals in Hardy's rural novels / Virginia Richter -- Inscribing voice. Counting animals: nonhuman voices in Lear and Carroll / Kaori Nagai -- "What am I?": locating the indeterminate voices of Ted Hughes's animal poems / Carrie Smith -- "Thou, spotted Eros": love poetry, taxonomy, and the erotics of Adamic naming / Matthew Margini -- Exploiting bodies. The hunting of the hare: female virtue and companionate marriage in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones / Adela Ramos -- "Filth and fat and blood and foam": animal capital, commodified meat, and the "human" in Great Expectations / Jennifer McDonell -- Fiction, fashion, and the Victorian fur seal hunt / John Miller -- Loving dogs. Animal intimacies: cross-species affect and the lapdog lyric / Laura Brown -- Anthropomorphism, personification and humanization in William Wordsworth's dog poems / James P. Carson -- "Was it flush, or was it Pan?": Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and canine biography / Derek Ryan |
| Summary |
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Karen L. Edwards is Professorof English at the University of Exeter, UK. Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent, UK. Jane Spencer is Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2019) |
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edwards, Karen L., editor.
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Ryan, Derek, editor.
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Spencer, Jane, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351603928 |
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1351603922 |
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9781315106366 |
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1315106361 |
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9781351603911 |
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1351603914 |
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9781351603904 |
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1351603906 |
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