Representing the modern animal in culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	xii, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Animals in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. Animals and civilization. Animals and civilization. Animals in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10090884

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Other authors / contributors:	Dubino, Jeanne, 1959- editor. Rashidian, Ziba, 1958- editor. Smyth, Andrew editor.
ISBN:	9781137428646 (hardback) 1137428643 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Representing the Modern Animal in Culture is a collection of twelve essays that investigate representations of animals and of the lives they share with humans. Starting with the eighteenth century but focusing on primarily the nineteenth century through the present day, these essays two sets of differences: the multifarious modes of representations that have materialized from the publication of Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, and the range of animal lives, and human-animal relationships, that have emerged over this time. The collection is divided into three sections that focus on some of the most noteworthy relationships and prototypical representations and themes over the past three centuries: 1. depictions of domesticated animals, with their emphasis on nonfiction and identity; 2. imaginative reconstructions, with their focus on authors' self-conscious acts of creation in the age of Darwin; and 3. contemporary modes, with their interest in the posthuman and their specific aim to both cross and merge the animal-human divide"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Identity: Lives with Domestic Animals in the Modern Era
1. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West
2. Paving Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing
3. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie
4. Pets in Memoir
Part II. Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphor in the Age of Darwin
5. Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and the Anthropomorphic Fallacy
6. Cats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals
7. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants
8. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flanerie
Part III. The Posthuman: Reconceiving Nonhuman Animals in the Contemporary World
9. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination
10. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood
11. Animal Gods in Extinction Stories: Power and Princess Mononoke
12. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World
Contributors
Index

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