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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Identity: Lives with Domestic Animals in the Modern Era
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Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphor in the Age of Darwin
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The Posthuman: Reconceiving Nonhuman Animals in the Contemporary World
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"From purebred horses and stray dogs to genetic bunnies and monkey vampires, this lively collection of essays reflects the expanding range of topics opened by the field of animal studies. Focusing on the ways we humans have represented our interactions with other animals in the modern era, and the ways such representations can matter for human and non-human lives, the collection brings to light how the experience of modernity is tied up with our real and imagined relations to other species." - Kari Weil, University Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University, USA
"Out of sight, out of mind? The essays in this book identify the tension between the disappearance and presence of the animal subject, with a focus on literature. These intriquing and challenging explorations enrich our understanding that seeing isn't just believing, it's feeling, it's caring. They challenge us to engage in the process of finding a way to be thoughtful about the predicament humans have created for the other animals and ourselves." - Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
"A multi-species world of its own, this collection deftly consolidates crucial new work in animal studies around questions of representation. With crystalline and evocative readings that attend to biopolitical species frameworks, creatures entwined with national, cultural, and scientific knowledge, and to various companionate and agential animals in their particularities, these essays attest to thethrilling range of enlivened thinking that animals invite us to undertake right now in the humanities." - Carrie Rohman, Assistant Professor of English, Lafayette College, USA and author of Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal
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Book Title: Representing the Modern Animal in Culture
Editors: Jeanne Dubino, Ziba Rashidian, Andrew Smyth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428653
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42864-6Published: 02 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49151-3Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42865-3Published: 02 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 254
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Sociology, general, Literary History, History of Britain and Ireland