Representing the modern animal in culture /
Dubino, Jeanne,1959-editor.
Rashidian, Ziba,1958-editor.
Smyth, Andreweditor.
"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"--
"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"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Jeanne Dubino -- PART I: IDENTITY: LIVES WITH DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN THE MODERN ERA -- 1. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West; Donna Landry -- 2. Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Texts; Jeanne Dubino -- 3. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie; Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- 4. Pets in Memoir; Kevin Ferguson -- PART II: ANTHROPOMORPHISM: ANIMALS AS METAPHOR IN THE AGE OF DARWIN -- 5. Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and Anthropomorphic Fallacy; Alexis Harley -- 6. Cats, Rats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals; Emily Essert -- 7. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants; Joshua Schuster -- 8. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie; Caroline Pollentier -- PART III: THE POSTHUMAN: RECONCEIVING NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- 9. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination; Andrew Smyth -- 10. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood; Ziba Rashidian -- 11. Being Out of Time: Animal Gods in Contemporary Extinction Fictions; Susan McHugh -- 12. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World; Neel Ahuja.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals and civilization.