The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

by: Derek Ryan (Editor)

Publication Date: November 9, 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 310 pages

ISBN-10: 1009300040

ISBN-13: 9781009300049

Book Description

The 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 inteational 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 mode fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modeist otheess and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, conceing 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.
The 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 inteational 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 mode fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modeist otheess and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, conceing 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.

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