Romantic Beasts: Pervasion, Eccentricity, Exhibition - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1684485568 ISBN 13 : 9781684485567

Editeur : Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2025

Synopsis

By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge's albatross or Poe's raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in "The Swallow" by Smith or "To a Mouse" by Burns--regardless, encounters with animal-others occasioned Romantic musings. This collection builds on existing scholarship while deploying new methodological approaches from gender studies, posthumanism, postcolonialism, disability studies, and digital studies to deepen our understanding of why animal-human encounters were so prevalent in the creative work and cultural discourse of the Romantic period, including the rhetoric of social movements like transatlantic abolitionism. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the range and complexity of Romantic representations of human-animal interactions and conceptualizations of animality, nonhuman life, and not-wholly-human life.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MICHAEL DEMSON is a professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

CHRISTOPHER R. CLASON is a professor emeritus at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1684485568
• ISBN 13: 9781684485567
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Demson Michael, Clason Christopher R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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