What animals mean in the fiction of modernity [electronic resource]
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What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee.What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals’ own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live.--publisher.
Title |
What animals mean in the fiction of modernity [electronic resource] / Philip Armstrong. |
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Publisher |
New York London : Routledge |
Creation Date |
2008 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
The inhuman fictions of Swift and Defoe -- Gulliver, Frankenstein, Moreau -- Rendering the whale -- Modernism and the hunt for redemption -- Animal refugees in the ruins of modernity. |
Extent |
1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997012410337205171 |
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