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There is much to admire in Jane Spencer's wide-ranging study. The breadth of reference is impressive and takes in great swathes of late eighteenth-century writing. * Julie Murray, Eighteenth-Century Fiction * Clearly written, meticulously researched, and illustrated with intriguing artifacts from popular culture, the volume is an outstanding contribution to both literary studies and animal studies. * R. D. Morrison, CHOICE *

Clearly written, meticulously researched, and illustrated with intriguing artifacts from popular culture, the volume is an outstanding contribution to both literary studies and animal studies. * R. D. Morrison, CHOICE *

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After gaining her BA from Hull and her D.Phil from the University of Oxford, Jane Spencer was an English lecturer for three years in Edinburgh. In 1988 she moved to the University of Exeter, where she is Professor of English. Her current research interests are in animal representation and human-animal relations in the 1660-1830 period. Her books include The Rise of the Woman Novelist (1986), Aphra Behn's Afterlife (2000) and Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon (2005). With Karen Edwards and Derek Ryan, she is co-editor of Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (Routledge, 2019).

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