Thomas Hardy and Animals

Informationen zum Autor Anna West is an early career researcher specializing in Victorian literature and animal studies. Since receiving her PhD from the University of St Andrews, where her research was funded by a Macpherson studentship, she has published articles on Thomas Hardy, Victorian science and literature, and Victorian farming practices in relation to ovine disease. She is a member of the Thomas Hardy Society, the British Association for Victorian Studies, the North American Victorian Studies Association, the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, and the French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies. Klappentext Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy's novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. Zusammenfassung Adding to the critical dialogue on animals in literary criticism! Victorian studies and animal studies! this accessible work will also appeal to scholars of science and posthumanism. Bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry! Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Hardy's 'shifted [...] centre of altruism': an ethics of encounter and empathy; 1. What does it mean to be a creature?; 2. 'The only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'; 3. 'Artful' creatures, part one: animal language; 4. 'Artful' creatures, part two: can a snake have a face?; 5. 'Artful' creatures, part three: 'pre-posthumanist' Hardy; 6. Useful creatures: rethinking Hardy's humanitarianism.

Product details

• Authors: Anna West, Anna (University of St Andrews West, West Anna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107179172
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17917-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Animals & society, Literature: history & criticism, Animals and society, Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Classic fiction: general and literary