Reading Literary Animals (eBook, ePUB)

Medieval to Modern
Redaktion: Edwards, Karen L.; Spencer, Jane; Ryan, Derek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, demonstrating the value of a literary animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351603911
• Artikelnr.: 57647703

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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