{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-animals-hardback-9781009300056","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (Hardback) 9781009300056","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores representations of animals and animality across the span of literary history, from the Middle Ages to the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDerek Ryan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009300056, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.598 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds 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. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eI. Literary Periods: 1. Middle Ages: Chivalry and the Beast Sarah Kay\u003cbr\u003e 2. Early Modern: Flesh Erica Fudge\u003cbr\u003e 3. Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Empire Donna Landry\u003cbr\u003e 4. Romantic: Animal Bonds and Animal Death Jane Spencer\u003cbr\u003e 5. Victorian: Character, Politics, and Racialization Anna Feuerstein\u003cbr\u003e 6. Modernist: Invention and Otherness Paul Sheehan\u003cbr\u003e 7. Contemporary: Animal Form and Zoontology Robert McKay\u003cbr\u003e II. Contexts and Controversies: 8. Religion: Reformation Christianity and Biblical Rhetoric Karen L. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e 9. Anthropomorphism: Violence and Law Monica Flegel\u003cbr\u003e 10. Habitat: Worlds of Wildlife Tobias Menely\u003cbr\u003e 11. Captivity: Zoos as Scenes of Nonencounter Antoine Traisnel\u003cbr\u003e 12. Indigeneity: Posthumanist Fantasy and Weird Reality Melanie Benson Taylor\u003cbr\u003e 13. Biocentrism: Sexuality, Coloniality, and Constructing the Human Nathan Snaza\u003cbr\u003e 14. Health: Zoonotic Disease and the Medical Posthumanities Lucinda Cole.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413978902808,"sku":"9781009300056","price":69.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009300056i.jpg?v=1784333352","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-animals-hardback-9781009300056","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}