Romantic Beasts
by Michael Demson (Editor)Frederick Burwick (Contribution by)Christopher R. Clason (Editor, Contribution by)Alastair Hunt (Contribution by)Pamela Buck (Contribution by)John Gardner (Contribution by)Jane Spencer (Contribution by)Allison Dushane (Contribution by)Kathryn Desplanque (Contribution by)Peter Erickson (Contribution by)
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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.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
| ISBN-13 | 9781684485567 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1684485568 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.13 x 1.00 x 9.25 In |
| List Price | $49.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 239 pages |
| Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
| Published On | 2025-08-12 |
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