Creatural Fictions Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twen
This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals. Written by forward-thinking early-career scholars, as well as established experts in the field, the chapters discuss ke
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Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Series editors: Prof Susan McHugh (University of New England, USA), Dr Robert McKay (University of Sheffield, UK) and Dr John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK) Before the 2000s, the humanities and social sciences paid little attention to the participation of non-human animals in human cultures. The entrenched idea of the human as a unique kind of being nourished a presumption that Homo sapiens should be the proper object of study for these fields, to the exclusion of lives beyond the human. Against this background, various academic disciplines can now be found in the process of executing an ‘animal turn’, questioning the ethical and philosophical grounds of human exceptionalism by taking seriously the animal presences that haunt the margins of history, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and literary studies. This series will publish work that looks specifically at the implications of the ‘animal turn’ for the field of Literary Studies. Whereas animals are conventionally read as objects of fable, allegory or metaphor (that is, as signs of specifically human concerns), this series significantly extends the new insights of interdisciplinary animal studies by tracing the engagement of such figuration with the material lives of animals. The series will encourage the examination of textual cultures as variously embodying a debt to or an intimacy with non-human animals and advance understanding of how the aesthetic engagements of literary arts have always done more than simply illustrate natural history. Susan McHugh is Professor of English at the University of New England, USA. Robert McKay is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. John Miller is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Editorial Board: Philip Armstrong, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde, UK; David Herman, Durham University, UK; Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada; Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA; Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA; Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Titles include: Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbá la Farago (editors) ANIMALS IN IRISH LITER ATURE AND CULTURE David Herman (editor) CREATUR AL FICTIONS: HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LITER ATURE Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–1374–8778–0 hardback 978–1–1374–8779–7 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England
Creatural Fictions Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
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