Memorializing Animals During the Romantic Period

ISBN-13: 9780367880316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str.

Chase Pielak

Opis

In his study of the presence of animals in early nineteenth-century works by Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron, Chase Pielak observes that images of dead and deadly animals coincided with questions about what constitutes human life and its boundaries. He argues that each author uses langu

Recenzje

"In Memorializing Animals, Pielak shows how animals have a place in the study of Romantic literature; their otherness provides the Romantics and us opportunities to rethink community and hospitality." - Ronald Broglio, Arizona State University

"The bookis an excellent read for anyone with interests in nineteenth Century British poetry or a desire to learn about animal memorialism." - George E. Dickinson, College of Charleston

Spis treści

exhuming beasts.  Beasts at the table: Charles and Mary Lamb and roast animals.  Living together: John Clare's creature community.  Mourning in Eden's churchyard: Clare's animal bodies.  Dead(ly) beasts: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the wandering cemetery.  Eccentric beasts: Byron's animal taboo and transgression.  Landed beasts: William Wordsworth, the white doe, and the cuckoo.

O autorze

Chase Pielak is Assistant Professor of English at Ashford University, USA. He has published on nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and posthuman criticism.