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Author: S. Rajamannar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-02-27
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1137011076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.
Author: Maire ni Fhlathuin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0748699694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.
Author: Derek Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 100919254X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts – from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game – became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enrichens our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.
Author: Anna Feuerstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108492967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Author: Derek Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1009300059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores representations of animals and animality across the span of literary history, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author: Kaori Nagai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 3030514935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.
Author: Mieke Roscher
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 647
ISBN-13: 3110536552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Saha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108839401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.
Author: Hilda Kean
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0429889240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges posed by historical studies of animals and animal-human relationships. Divided into three parts, the Companion takes both a theoretical and practical approach to a field that is emerging as a prominent area of study. Animals and the Practice of History considers established practices of history, such as political history, public history and cultural memory, and how animal-human history can contribute to them. Problems and Paradigms identifies key historiographical issues to the field with contributors considering the challenges posed by topics such as agency, literature, art and emotional attachment. The final section, Themes and Provocations, looks at larger themes within the history of animal-human relationships in more depth, with contributions covering topics that include breeding, war, hunting and eating. As it is increasingly recognised that nonhuman actors have contributed to the making of history, The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on animal-human history and surrounding debates.
Author: Hans Bertens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1135052972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including: reception theory and reader response theory the new criticism of postmodernism the ‘after theory’ debate post-humanism, biopolitics and animal studies aesthetics Literary Theory: The Basics helps readers to approach the many theories and debates in this field with confidence. Now with updated case studies and further reading this is an essential purchase for anyone who strives to understand literary theory today.
