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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 September 2018
      20 September 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108595278
      9781108429825
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595278
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 398 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Critical Concepts
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Critical Concepts
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    Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field 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 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.

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    'This is a reference book indispensable to any self-respecting academic library, but it is also a publication that sits well in the personal collection of any student or lay person interested in the discipline.'

    Janette Leaf Source: The British Society for Literature and Science

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    • Chapter 1 - Aristotle’s Zoology in the Medieval World
      pp 29-42
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