The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature
John Miller editor Susan McHugh editor Robert McKay editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:26th Nov '20
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This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical theory. User-friendly language, references, even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers, sections are organized by conventions of periodization, and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field’s conceptual foundations and new directions, the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come.
“Students and teachers engaged in a friendlier, more-than-human reading of texts will surely find The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature a volume of great value.” (Borbála László, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 27 (2), 2021)
ISBN: 9783030397722
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1148g
636 pages
1st ed. 2021