Animals, animality, and literature /

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Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xvii, 383 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge critical concepts
Cambridge critical concepts.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11716719
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Other authors / contributors:Boehrer, Bruce Thomas, editor.
Hand, Molly, editor.
Massumi, Brian, editor.
ISBN:9781108429825
1108429823
9781108592826
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally-noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores to the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands" --
Other form:ebook version : 9781108592826