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Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai
Kimberly W. Benston
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai
Kimberly W. Benston
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human "being" to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare's King Lear, Eliot's Middlemarch, Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood's Surfacing, and Desai's Clear Light of Day.
250 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
To be released | TBA |
ISBN13 | 9781785279607 |
Publishers | Anthem Press |
Pages | 250 |
Dimensions | 153 × 229 × 26 mm · 454 g |
Language | English |