Civilized Creatures - Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 18501900

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Mason has taught English at Southern Methodist University and Skidmore College. Klappentext Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Zusammenfassung In each case! Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender! race! and cultural power enacted in these texts.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Mason
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2005
• EAN: 9780801880711
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8071-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Animals, History, Culture; Animals, History, Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Animals & society, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Animals and society, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form