What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780415358385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Armstron Philip; Philip Armstrong

Opis

Examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels", "Frankenstein" and "Moby-Dick". This title explores how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. The Inhuman Fictions of Swift and Defoe  2. Gulliver, Frankenstein, Moreau  3. Rendering the Whale  4. Modernism and the Hunt for Redemption  5. Animal Refugees in the Ruins of Modernity

O autorze

Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, where he is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies.