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1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals' own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-248) and index. |
| Contents |
The inhuman fictions of Swift and Defoe -- Gulliver, Frankenstein, Moreau -- Rendering the whale -- Modernism and the hunt for redemption -- Animal refugees in the ruins of modernity |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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Animals -- Social aspects.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Animals -- Social aspects. |
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Great Britain. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Armstrong, Philip, 1967- What animals mean in the fiction of modernity. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008 9780415358385 0415358388 (DLC) 2007036625 (OCoLC)170203711 |
| ISBN |
9780203004562 (electronic book) |
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0203004566 (electronic book) |
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9781281197597 (e-book) |
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1281197599 (e-book) |
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0415358388 (cloth) |
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9780415358385 (cloth) |
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9780415358385 (cloth) |
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9780415358392 (paperback) |
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0415358396 (paperback) |
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