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"This book surveys the role of animals across literary history. It explores how engaging with animals alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies"--
List of contents
I. Literary Periods: 1. Middle Ages: Chivalry and the Beast Sarah Kay; 2. Early Modern: Flesh Erica Fudge; 3. Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Empire Donna Landry; 4. Romantic: Animal Bonds and Animal Death Jane Spencer; 5. Victorian: Character, Politics, and Racialization Anna Feuerstein; 6. Modernist: Invention and Otherness Paul Sheehan; 7. Contemporary: Animal Form and Zoontology Robert McKay; II. Contexts and Controversies: 8. Religion: Reformation Christianity and Biblical Rhetoric Karen L. Edwards; 9. Anthropomorphism: Violence and Law Monica Flegel; 10. Habitat: Worlds of Wildlife Tobias Menely; 11. Captivity: Zoos as Scenes of Nonencounter Antoine Traisnel; 12. Indigeneity: Posthumanist Fantasy and Weird Reality Melanie Benson Taylor; 13. Biocentrism: Sexuality, Coloniality, and Constructing the Human Nathan Snaza; 14. Health: Zoonotic Disease and the Medical Posthumanities Lucinda Cole.
Summary
This book surveys the role of animals across literary history. It explores how engaging with animals alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies.
