{"product_id":"romantic-beasts-pervasion-eccentricity-exhibition-hardback-9781684485574","title":"Romantic Beasts; Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition (Hardback) 9781684485574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRomantic Beasts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Demson (Edited by), Christopher R. Clason (Edited by), Alastair Hunt (Contributions by), Pamela Buck (Contributions by), John Gardner (Contributions by), Jane Spencer (Contributions by), Christopher R. Clason (Contributions by), Allison Dushane (Contributions by), Kathryn Desplanque (Contributions by), Peter Erickson (Contributions by), Frederick Burwick (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684485574\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 10 color and 17 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An excellent addition to the ever-expanding field of animal studies, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e invites consideration of non-human animals large and small, domesticated and wild, both familiar and exotic to the nineteenth-century European public. Here are animals on page and stage and in the plastic arts, real and allegorical, in chapters sure to stimulate wider explorations.\" - Glynis Ridley (coeditor of Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years) \"\u003ci\u003eRomantic Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e enriches our discussions of the other-than-human, reaching across prominent as well as popular works in English, German, and French Romanticism, and connecting animal studies with race, slavery, and imperialism. These new perspectives will shape our understanding of literary animals, and extend the lively current debates around posthumanist, environmentalist, and affective approaches.\" - Laura Brown (author of The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Cent) \"In its timely and authoritative discussion of animals in the context of Romanticism, this grouping of essays edited by Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason offers a gap-filling understanding of an important locus of early nineteenth-century literary imagery. Informed by a wide array of texts, these studies are full of fascinating details and illuminating moments, all well-written and often corrective. Also a judicious compilation and integration of insights, this assemblage of studies also suggests, by implication, taking a new look at Romanticism itself. \u003ci\u003eRomantic Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to literary history and criticism and a must-read for anyone interested in animalia and its cultural connections.\" - Larry H. Peer (editor of Transgressive Romanticism) \"By drawing on the diverse but complementary perspectives of Romanticism and animal studies, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e advances the study of both fields to a new international and interdisciplinary level. This innovative and exciting collection of wide-ranging scholarly essays, expertly curated and comprehensively introduced by the two editors, is a fitting tribute to the polymathic Romanticism expertise of Professor Burwick to whom this volume is dedicated.\" - Eugene Stelzig (author of The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBy staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how \"human\" animals could be and how \"animal\" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or “To a Mouse” by Burns-regardless, encounters with animal-others occasioned Romantic musings. This collection builds on existing scholarship while deploying new methodological approaches from gender studies, posthumanism, postcolonialism, disability studies, and digital studies to deepen our understanding of why animal-human encounters were so prevalent in the creative work and cultural discourse of the Romantic period, including the rhetoric of social movements like transatlantic abolitionism. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the range and complexity of Romantic representations of human-animal interactions and conceptualizations of animality, nonhuman life, and not-wholly-human life.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason\u003cbr\u003e Part One: The Pervasion of Animal Figures\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Animals in Abolition\u003cbr\u003e Alastair Hunt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People: Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eA Voyage Round the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pamela Buck\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett\u003cbr\u003e John Gardner\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Eccentricity of Animal Figures\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Familiarity and Flights of Imagination: Romantic Birds\u003cbr\u003e Jane Spencer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Poodle’\u003cbr\u003es Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eLebensansichten des Katers Murr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christopher R. Clason\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Weird Creatures: Romantic-era Zoophytes, The Great Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life\u003cbr\u003e Allison Dushane\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public: French Art-World Caricature, the Animal Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Desplanque\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Horse Paintings: Problems of Communication and Politics in French Romantic Painting\u003cbr\u003e Peter Erickson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Burwick\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason\u003cbr\u003e PA R T O N E : The Pervasion of\u003cbr\u003e Animal Figures\u003cbr\u003e 1 Animals in Abolition 19\u003cbr\u003e Alastair Hunt\u003cbr\u003e 2 Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People:\u003cbr\u003e Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’\u003cbr\u003es\u003cbr\u003e A Voyage Round the World 38\u003cbr\u003e Pamela Buck\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett 53\u003cbr\u003e John Gardner\u003cbr\u003e PA R T TWO : The Eccentricity of\u003cbr\u003e Animal Figures\u003cbr\u003e 4 Familiarity and Flights of Imagination:\u003cbr\u003e Romantic Birds 73\u003cbr\u003e Jane Spencer\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Poodle’\u003cbr\u003es Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’\u003cbr\u003es\u003cbr\u003e Lebensansichten des Katers Murr 91\u003cbr\u003e Christopher R. Clason\u003cbr\u003e 6 Weird Creatures: Romantic-Era\u003cbr\u003e Zoophytes, the\u003cbr\u003e Great\u003cbr\u003e Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life 112\u003cbr\u003e Allison Dushane\u003cbr\u003e PA R T T H R E E : The Exhibition of\u003cbr\u003e Human-Animal\u003cbr\u003e Entanglements\u003cbr\u003e 7 The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public:\u003cbr\u003e French Art-World\u003cbr\u003e Caricature, the Animal\u003cbr\u003e Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities 133\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Desplanque\u003cbr\u003e 8 Horse\u003cbr\u003e Paintings: Problems\u003cbr\u003e of Communication\u003cbr\u003e and Politics in French Romantic Painting 161\u003cbr\u003e Peter Erickson\u003cbr\u003e 9 The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama 181\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Burwick\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 201\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 203\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors 221\u003cbr\u003e Index 000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633828131096,"sku":"9781684485574","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/romantic-beasts-pervasion-eccentricity-exhibition-hardback-9781684485574","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}