Reading literary animals: Medieval to modern

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 h...

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Other Authors: Edwards, Karen L. (Editor), Ryan, Derek (Editor), Spencer, Jane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2020
Series:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
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Online Access:Volltext
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
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781351603928
1351603922
9781315106366
1315106361
9781351603911
1351603914
9781351603904
1351603906

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