Performing Animals - History, Agency, Theater

A collection of essays that explore the role of performing animals in literature, theater, art, and other media prior to the twentieth century, and discuss recent theoretical work in animal studies, materialism, and posthumanism.

About the author

Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Her most recent book is Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture.Monica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English Literature and History at the University of Northern British Columbia and the author of Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship, also published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

A collection of essays that explore the role of performing animals in literature, theater, art, and other media prior to the twentieth century, and discuss recent theoretical work in animal studies, materialism, and posthumanism.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Raber
• Assisted by: Monica Mattfeld (Editor), Monica (Associate Professor Mattfeld (Editor), Mattfeld Monica (Editor), Karen Raber (Editor), Karen (University of Mississippi) Raber (Editor), Raber Karen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9780271078342
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07834-2
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Animalibus; Animalibus
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Theaterwissenschaft, Nutztiere: Sachbuch, NATURE / Animals / General, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Western, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Farm & working animals, Western Europe