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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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Author:   Karen L. Edwards ,  Derek Ryan ,  Jane Spencer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138093782

ISBN 10:   1138093785
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   18 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Contents Introduction Karen L. Edwards, Derek Ryan, Jane Spencer Part I Testing Metaphor1. Entities in the World: Intertextuality in Medieval Bestiaries and Fables Carolynn Van Dyke 2. Una’s ‘Milkewhite Lambe’ Karen L. Edwards 3. Behn’s Beasts: Aesop’s Fables and Surinam’s Wildlife in Oroonoko Jane Spencer Part II Plotting Agency 4. Shakespeare’s Animal Parts Philip Armstrong 5. Exit Pursuing a Human: Performing Animals on the Early Modern Stage Andy Kesson 6. Collaborative Agency: Animals in Hardy’s Rural Novels Virginia Richter Part III Inscribing Voice 7. Counting Animals: Nonhuman Voices in Lear and Carroll Kaori Nagai 8. ‘What am I?’: Locating the Indeterminate Voices of Ted Hughes’s Animal Poems Carrie Smith 9. ""Thou, Spotted Eros"": Love Poetry, Taxonomy, and the Erotics of Adamic Naming Matthew Margini Part IV Exploiting Bodies10. The Hunting of the Hare: Female Virtue and Companionate Marriage in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones Adela Ramos 11. ""Filth and Fat and Blood and Foam"": Animal Capital, Commodified Meat, and the ""Human"" in Great Expectations Jennifer McDonell 12. Fiction, Fashion, and the Victorian Fur Seal Hunt John Miller Part V Loving Dogs 13. Animal Intimacies: Cross-Species Affect and the Lapdog Lyric Laura Brown 14. Anthropomorphism, Personification and Humanization in William Wordsworth’s Dog Poems James P. Carson 15. ""Was it Flush, or was it Pan?"": Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and Canine Biography Derek Ryan"

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Karen L. Edwards is Professor of 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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