Kindred brutes : animals in Romantic-period writing

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Label

Kindred brutes : animals in Romantic-period writing

Title remainder

animals in Romantic-period writing

Statement of responsibility

Christine Kenyon-Jones

Creator

• Kenyon-Jones, Christine

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Evolution (Biology) in literature
• Human-animal relationships in literature
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Animals in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Exploring the significance of animals in Romantic-period writing, this new study shows how in this period they were seen as both newly different from humankind (subjects in their own right, rather than simply humanity's tools or adjuncts) and also as newly similar, with the ability to feel and perhaps to think like human beings." "Approaches to animals are reviewed in a wide range of the period's literary work. Poetry and other literary work are discussed in relation to discourses about animals in various contemporary cultural contexts, including children's books, parliamentary debates, vegetarian theses, encyclopaedias and early theories about evolution. The study introduces animals to the discussions about ecocriticism and environmentalism in Romantic-period writing by complicating the concept of 'Nature', and it also contributes to the debates about politics and the body in this period. It demonstrates the rich variety of thinking about animals in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and it challenges the exclusion of literary writing from some recent multi-disciplinary debates about animals, by exploring the literary roots of many metaphors about and attitudes to animals in our current thinking."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/362/09034

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR468.A56

LC item number

K46 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The nineteenth century