The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature
by Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, John Miller
1st Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9783030397722 |
| eText ISBN | 9783030397739 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 636 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature, 1st Edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature.
The volume concentrates primarily on literary prose and poetry in English while also engaging with film and critical theory. Organized by conventions of periodization, the chapters address canonical and popular texts to examine how animal representations and cross-species relationships have developed across literary history.
Designed to support teachers and newcomers to literary animal studies, the handbook pairs discussions of conceptual foundations and emerging directions with user-friendly language, references, and suggestions for further reading.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards and Animal-centred Literary History
Chapter 2: The Exception and the Norm: Dimensions of Anthropocentrism
Chapter 3: Metaphor, Metonymy, More-than-Anthropocentric. The Animal that therefore I Read (and Follow)
Chapter 4: Narratology beyond the Human: Self-Narratives and Inter-Species Identities
Chapter 5: An(im)alogical Thinking: Contemporary Black Literature and the Dreaded Comparison
Chapter 6: We Are not in this World Alone: On Drawing Close, Animal Stories, and a Multispecies Sense of Place
Chapter 7: A Community of Exiles: Whale and Human Domains in Old English Poetry
Chapter 8: An Ontological Turn for the Medieval Books of Beasts: Environmental Theory from Premodern to Postmodern
Chapter 9: Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Half-Heard Nightingale
Chapter 10: Huntings of the Hare: The Medieval and Early Modern Poetry of Imperilled Animals
Chapter 11: Human, Animal, and Metamorphic Becomings
Chapter 12: Sheep, Beasts, and Knights: Fugitive Alterity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Book VI, and The Shepheardes Calender
Chapter 13: My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond
Chapter 14: What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human
Chapter 15: 'Real' Animals and the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Chapter 16: Mary Leapor's Creatureliness in 'An Essay on Woman' and Other Poems
Chapter 17: Poetics of the Hunt: Re-reading Agency and Re-thinking Ecology in William Somerville's The Chase
Chapter 18: Beyond Symbolism: The Rights and Biopolitics of Romantic Period Animals
Chapter 19: Bad Dog: The Dark Side of Misbehaving Animals
Chapter 20: Why Animals Matter in Jane Austen
Chapter 21: John Keats and the Sound of Nature: Reading Poetry in a Time of Extinction
Chapter 22: Cooper's Animal Offences: The Confusion of Species in Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 23: Jane Eyre and Tess Durbeyfield at the Human/Animal Border
Chapter 24: Animals and Nonsense: Edward Lear's Menagerie
Chapter 25: Intimacy, Objectification, and Inter/Intra-Species Relations in Victorian Animal Autobiographies
Chapter 26: How Not to Eat: Vegetarian Polemics in Victorian India
Chapter 27: Modernist Animals and Bioaesthetics
Chapter 28: Vivisection in Modernist Culture and Popular Fiction, 1890-1945
Chapter 29: Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Two Modernist Women Writing as Dogs
Chapter 30: Kingship, Kinship and the King of Beasts in Early Southern African Novels
Chapter 31: Animals Inside: Creatureliness in Dezső Kosztolányi's Skylark and Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
Chapter 32: Speculative Humanisms: Postwar Universalism and the Question of the Animal
Chapter 33: CanLit's Ossiferous Fictions: Animal Bones and Fossils in Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man and Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries
Chapter 34: Returning to the Animals' Gaze: Reflective Readings of Lionesses Marah and Sekhmet
Chapter 35: 'Without the right words it's hard to retain clarity': Speculative Fiction and Animal Narrative
Chapter 36: Jesmyn Ward's Dog Bite: Mississippi Love and Death Stories
Chapter 37: Shared and Hefted Lives in Twenty-First Century Shepherds' Calendars
Chapter 38: The Biopolitics of Animal Love: Two Settler Stories
Chapter 39: Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability
Chapter 40: Denizen Habitations: Spaces of Solidarity in Recent South Asian Fiction
Chapter 41: Plagues, Poisons, Dead Rats: In Search of a Medical Posthumanities
Chapter 42: Last Chance to See: Extinction in Literary Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities
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