David Perkins

Romanticism and Animal Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780521045988
• ISBN-10: 0521045983
• Artikelnr.: 23176215

Autorenporträt

David Perkins is Marquand Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of nine books including The Quest for Permanence, Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity, English Romantic Writers, A History of Modern Poetry, and Is Literary History Possible?

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. In the beginning of animal rights
2. Grounds of argument
3. Keeping pets: William Cowper and his hares
4. Barbarian pleasures: against hunting
5. Savage amusements of the poor: John Clare's badger sonnets
6. Work animals, slaves, servants: Coleridge's young ass
7. The slaughterhouse and the kitchen: Charles Lamb's 'Dissertation upon Roast Pig'
8. Caged birds and wild
Notes
Bibliographical essay
Index.