The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals

Overview

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009300049
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/09/2023
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent. His previous books include Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature (2022), Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015), and the co-edited volume Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (2019).

Table of Contents

I. Literary Periods: 1. Middle Ages: Chivalry and the Beast Sarah Kay; 2. Early Modern: Flesh Erica Fudge; 3. Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Empire Donna Landry; 4. Romantic: Animal Bonds and Animal Death Jane Spencer; 5. Victorian: Character, Politics, and Racialization Anna Feuerstein; 6. Modernist: Invention and Otherness Paul Sheehan; 7. Contemporary: Animal Form and Zoontology Robert McKay; II. Contexts and Controversies: 8. Religion: Reformation Christianity and Biblical Rhetoric Karen L. Edwards; 9. Anthropomorphism: Violence and Law Monica Flegel; 10. Habitat: Worlds of Wildlife Tobias Menely; 11. Captivity: Zoos as Scenes of Nonencounter Antoine Traisnel; 12. Indigeneity: Posthumanist Fantasy and Weird Reality Melanie Benson Taylor; 13. Biocentrism: Sexuality, Coloniality, and Constructing the Human Nathan Snaza; 14. Health: Zoonotic Disease and the Medical Posthumanities Lucinda Cole.
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