Reading Literary Animals Medieval to Modern

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Author:
Karen Edwards, Derek Ryan, Jane Spencer
ISBN:
9781351603911
Related ISBNs:
9781315106366, 9781138093782, 9781138093782, 9781138093850, 9781138093850
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2019-09-05
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature