Pet Projects - Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

About the author

Elizabeth Young is Carl M. and Elsie A. Small Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor and Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War.

Summary

An analysis of how animals were represented in the nineteenth century in fiction, taxidermy, and other media, threaded together with the author’s reflections on animal illness and on the field of animal studies. Â

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Young, Elizabeth (Mount Holyoke College) Young
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2019
• EAN: 9780271084947
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08494-7
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Animalibus
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, Diaries, letters & journals, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Animals & society, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Diaries, letters and journals, Animals and society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs