Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)

Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)

by JaneSpencer (Editor), Derek Ryan (Editor), Karen Edwards (Editor), Jane Spencer (Editor), Derek Ryan (Editor), KarenEdwards (Editor), Karen L. Edwards (Editor)

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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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 302
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 18 Sep 2019

ISBN 10: 1138093858
ISBN 13: 9781138093850